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May 26, 2023 · By Livia Albeck-Ripka. May 26, 2023. Memorial Day weekend is among the busiest for travel in the United States and the unofficial start of summer; a day for cookouts, beach trips and auto races....
A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as homes or other sites, or works of art such as sculptures, statues, fountains or parks.
May 26, 2023 · EXPLAINER. Why do we celebrate Memorial Day—and should it return to its roots? Not to be confused with Veterans Day, this federal holiday honors those who lost their lives in service of their...
Britannica Dictionary definition of MEMORIAL. [count] : something (such as a monument or ceremony) that honors a person who has died or serves as a reminder of an event in which many people died. a war memorial. — often + to.
noun. something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event, etc., as a monument or a holiday. a written statement of facts presented to a sovereign, a legislative body, etc., as the ground of, or expressed in the form of, a petition or remonstrance.
References. List of national memorials of the United States. Mount Rushmore National Memorial on a commemorative 1952 stamp. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] .
an object made in order to honor a person or event: The statue is a memorial to those who died in the war. A memorial service is an event held to remember a person who has died. (Definition of memorial from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
