Honor the fallen this Memorial Day
Members of American Heritage Girls and Trail Life USA boys with Real Life Ministries in Post Falls on Memorial Day 2022 carry flags in Evergreen Cemetery.
BILL BULEY/Press File
Several Memorial Day events and ceremonies will take place in Kootenai County throughout the May 29 holiday to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice serving their country.
Memorial Day was first established as Decoration Day by the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union veteran organization, on May 5, 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, as a time to decorate the gravesites of the war dead with flowers...
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