When is Memorial Day 2025? Next paid federal holiday is nearly 100 days away
If you're looking forward to your next paid day off, you'll need to be patient. Because Memorial Day is more than three ...
‘Memorial Days’ Review: Grief, Interrupted
After the novelist Geraldine Brooks lost her husband, she postponed confronting the enormous loss—until it became impossible ...
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Tony Horwitz's widow Geraldine Brooks writes a beautiful memoir of grief
The opening of her memoir Memorial Days describes in present-tense, fragmented phrases what it was like to be on the receiving end of a call from an ER doc whose voice is "flat, exhausted ...
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Burnsville 1 year later: Public Safety Memorial Day proclaimed to honor fallen first responders
The lives of three first responders killed in the line of duty last year are being remembered Tuesday in Burnsville.
Are flags half-staff on Presidents' Day? What holidays are they lowered? What to know
Presidents' Day is a federal holiday, celebrated annually on the third Monday of February. But flags are raised at full height.
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Church pleads for stolen World War II memorial plaques to be returned
Residents are keeping their eyes out for two war memorial plaques stolen from Bethesda Lutheran Church's memorial park in ...
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‘Memorial Days’ Review: Grief, Interrupted
It was Memorial Day 2019, a day that would no longer be a holiday to Ms. Brooks and the two sons she and Horwitz raised together in their home on Martha’s Vineyard. As Ms. Brooks recalls in her ...