They filled the long grassy area from the steps of the United States Capitol building to the Lincoln Memorial.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

The memorial honors all members of the United States Marine Corps who died in battle since the American Revolution.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Veterans Day came a day after the president spoke at a memorial service at the Army base at Fort Hood,Texas.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The memorial is where the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

He named the Linda Pollin Memorial Housing Project after one of his two children who died of heart disease.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

In nineteen forty-six,Goldwyn received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award for his excellent movie productions during the Academy Award ceremonies that year.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

He and other survivors were flown to Florida for emergency treatment at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

At the age of twenty-one, she won a national contest to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Crowds expect a beautiful show as the cherry trees blossom along the edge of the Tidal Basin next to the Jefferson Memorial.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

A memorial sign where his plane crashed contains lines from his song "Windsong": "So welcome the wind and the wisdom she offers.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

Earlier,the religious official of the United States Senate spoke about her at a memorial service in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gave one of the most famous speeches in American History.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The memorial is to exist as a video project, a Web site and as a book.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

In the spring, crowds expect a beautiful show as the trees blossom along the edge of the Tidal Basin next to the Jefferson Memorial.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

The building opened in nineteen seventy-one as a memorial to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

People who drive along a road near the memorial sometimes think the statues are real soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Bettye LaVette sang in January at the inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial for Barack Obama.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

In the memorial, there is the X-1, the first airplane to fly faster than sound.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The official name of the Hoover Dam bypass is the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

He was eighty-nine years old. A memorial service was held at the Washington National Cathedral.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

In nineteen eighty, a group of former soldiers announced a competition to design a memorial.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

He is on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington speaking to demonstrators.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

On Wednesday,President Obama spoke at a memorial service held at the University of Arizona.

VOA: special.2011.01.15

A statue of Fala is part of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.02.23