The first official observance of Memorial Day was in remembrance of Civil War dead.
Since then it has come to an honoring of all war dead.
Here is an incomplete, but far too lengthy list.

Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Vicksburg, Fredericksburg, Antietam, Cold Harbor, Bull Run.

USS Maine, Manila, El Caney, San Juan Hill.

Second battle of Manila, Moro Rebellion.

Amiens, Belleau Wood, The Lost Battalion, Blanc Mont, Second Battle of the Marne, Argonne Forest, Cantigny, Second Somme, Soissons, Sain Mihiel,.

Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona, Bataan, Battle of the Atlantic, The Murmansk Run, Kasserine Pass, Salerno, Anzio, Monte Cassino, Normandy, Huertgen Forest, Dragoon, Omaha Beach, Sainte Mere Eglise, Aachen, Market Garden, Schweinfurt mission, Bastogne, Wake Island, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, USS Yorktown, USS Lexington, USS Indianapolis, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Luzon.

Inchon, Osan, Chosin Resevoir.

Ia Drang, Van Tuong, Khe Sahn, Tet, Hamburger Hill, Rolling Thunder.

Beirut

Desert One

Grenada

Panama

Desert Storm

Pentagon, USS Cole

Mogadishu

Operation Anaconda, Kandahar,  Kunduz, Takur Ghar, Nawzad, Wanat

Fallujah, Mosel, Haditha, Ramadi, Karbala, The Anbar Province, Nasiriyah


I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 

Last edited by Goose (5/30/2016 12:49 pm)