History
Vocabulary
Traditions
Arlington
Armed Forces
100

when Memorial Day is celebrated

What is the last Monday in May?

100

Missing in Action

What is MIA?

100
How a flag is flown on Memorial Day
What is at half-mast?
100

Where the President delivers a speech every Memorial Day

What is Arlington National Cemetery?

100

Soldiers on land

What is the army?

200

When Americans FIRST started celebrating Memorial Day

What is after the American Civil War?

200
KIA
What is killed in action?
200
The song played on the bugle at soldiers' funerals and on Memorial Day
What is Taps?
200
Where soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried
What is Section 60?
200
Soldiers on the water (3)
What are the Navy, Coast Guard, and Marines?
300

The reason to celebrate Memorial Day

What is remembering dead soldiers?

300
POW
What is prisoner of war?
300
picnics, parades, going to the beach
What are Memorial Day activities?
300
Placed at every grave in Arlington
What is an American flag?
300
Soldiers who fly
What is the Air Force?
400

The year Memorial Day became a national holiday.

What is 1971?

400
The Fallen
What is a dead soldier?
400
When all Americans stop what they are doing and remember the servicemen who died.
What is 3:00pm?
400
Has a soldier from WWI, WWII, and Korea
What is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers?
400
The commander-in-chief
What is the American President?
500

625,000

What is the number of dead in the American Civil War?

500
What a soldier gives when s/he dies in war (euphemism)
What is the 'last full measure of devotion?'
500
photos, flowers, stones
What are things left on graves?
500
Air Force 1st Lt. Michael J. Blassie
What is the unknown Vietnam soldier?
500
idiom that states that the freedoms enjoyed by citizens are only possible through the voluntary risks taken and sacrifices made by the military
What is 'freedom is not free?'
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