Remembering Our Fallen Heroes on this Memorial Day — Those Who Never Made It Home
Today we honor the soldiers who sacrificed their very lives – who gave their last full measure of devotion – for the freedoms we enjoy today. In their honor, may we who have survived, fight for peace as courageously as those brave soldiers fought on the battlefield of their death.
We hope you enjoy the following collection of Memorial Day listings – events, tributes, historic speeches, songs, and movies we’ve gathered. With every listing, we remembered the sacrifice of our departed brothers and sisters.
With each of you, we will carry those who have died for us in our hearts and prayers this Memorial Day of our nation’s 250th anniversary.
Memorial Day observances and events across the nation – a state-by-state guide
See @RapidResponse47; see also Memorial Day History at US Department of Veteran Affairs
Here’s How Donald Trump Will Spend Memorial Day
President Donald Trump will honor Memorial Day by paying tribute to fallen American heroes at Arlington National Cemetery, the Daily Wire can first report.
The president and members of his administration will join Gold Star families and service members at the cemetery on Monday, a White House official shared. Trump will visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and then will deliver remarks nearby.
He will be joined by top members of his administration, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Veteran Affairs Doug Collins, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine.
“President Trump will visit Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day to pay tribute to our fallen heroes whose sacrifice has kept our nation free,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told The Daily Wire. “These patriots represent the very best of us, and the President will express the enduring gratitude of our entire nation.”
“America’s best and bravest have fought and died for our freedom,” she added, “and President Trump will honor these heroes as he continues making our nation prouder, freer, and stronger than ever before.”
Read more at the Daily Wire
POTUS to pay tribute to fallen heroes at Arlington Cemetery
Candlelit tribute honoring the fallen – tonight at 8:30 pm ET
Join Freedom 250 on Monday, May 25, 2026 for An Evening of Stories and Service — featuring powerful storytelling, patriotic music, and a candlelit tribute honoring the fallen.
See @Freedom250
Watch the National Memorial Day Concert 2026
Live from the U.S. Capitol, the National Memorial Day Concert features stories, tributes, and musical performances by world-renowned artists and the National Symphony Orchestra, with a special tribute of the country’s 250th anniversary. Hosted by Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise with performances by Noah Wyle, Melissa Leo, Andy Grammer, Jonathan Banks, Mickey Guyton, Jamey Johnson, Alan Jackson, Mary McCormack, Laura Osnes, Blessing Offor and Maestro Jack Everly conducting the National Symphony Orchestra.
Watch full concert at PBS
Message from the White House —
See @WhiteHouse
A Memorial Day Message from the Secretary of Veteran Affairs
Watch @RapidResponse47
Memorial Day message from Tulsi Gabbard, Veteran
Watch @TulsiGabbard
From Secretary Burgum —
Watch @SecretaryBergum
On Saturday Pete Hegseth et al. washed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC
Watch @DeptofWar
Fallen service members honored with 600,000 poppies on National Mall
Watch @DCExaminer
‘A few quick but touching thoughts about the real significance of today’s Memorial Day holiday’ from Jeff Childers
See @jchilders
Memorial Day Speech by President Ronald Reagan (1982)
Watch at Jo Wood
Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day 1962, President John F. Kennedy
Whereas the supreme and selfless sacrifice of those who gave their lives on the field of honor have made it possible for succeeding American generations to remain free and enjoy the spiritual and material blessings of our free society; and
Whereas the courage and ideals of our noble dead have contributed to the advancement of the cause of world freedom and stand as an inspiration to us all; and
Whereas in our time we face a challenge which demands of us the same virtues of loyalty, courage, and devotion to country that characterized our fallen heroes; and
Whereas Memorial Day each year provides a fitting occasion upon which Americans may not only pay tribute to our honored dead but also unite in prayer for success in our search for a just and lasting peace; and
Whereas to this end the Congress, in a joint resolution approved May 11, 1950 (64 Stat. 158), requested the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe each Memorial Day as a day of prayer for permanent peace:
Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to observe Memorial Day, Wednesday, May 30, 1962, by invoking the blessing of God on those who have died in defense of our country, and by praying for a new world of law where peace and justice shall be assured for all; and I designate the hour beginning in each locality at eleven o’clock in the morning of that day as the time to unite in such prayer.
I also urge the press, radio, television, and all other media of information to cooperate in this observance.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this Eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth.
Read at The American Presidency Project
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Watch at TheNitrocars
The Gettysburg Address (full text)
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Read at Abraham Lincoln Online
Memorial Day Song
Watch/listen at Dave and Darlene Duprey
Memorial Day Song
Listen at Veteran Owned Business
‘Memorial Day’ – Full War Movie
Watch at Samuel Goldwyn Films
Prayer on this Memorial Day
Read @father_rmv
Have a Somber, reflective, and Prayerful Memorial Day. May their souls and those of all the faithful departed rest in the peace of Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen!