Honoring America's fallen heroes

U.S. soldiers hold candles during a ceremony at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday. The ceremony was organized by the US forces based at Camp Eggers for a Memorial Day commemoration of soldiers killed in service.

ARLINGTON, VA - MAY 31: U.S. Army Sgt. Brian Scott touches the grave marker of his friend and gunner Army Specialist Michael Luis Gonzales on Memorial Day in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery May 31, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. Gonzales was killed August 28, 2008, in Iraq by a roadside bomb that severly injured Scott. This is the 142nd Memorial Day observance at the cemetery. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

BRIDGEPORT, CT - MAY 31: Veterans of the American and Polish military participate in a Memorial Day Parade on May 31, 2010 in Bridgeport,Connecticut. Bridgeport, once home to thousands of Polish Americans, still has a small community of Polish veterans who fought in the Second World War with the Allies in a number of European, Middle Eastern and North African theaters. Across the country in military cemeteries, parades and gatherings, Americans are remembering the nations war dead. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Dolly Anderson, of Mission Hills, Kan. visits her husband's grave at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery Monday, May 31, 2010 in Leavenworth, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

ATLANTA - MAY 31: The Atlanta Braves honor Memorial Day before facing the Philadelphia Phillies at Turner Field on May 31, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

People brave a driving rain storm after President Barack Obama encouraged them to go to their cars for safety during Memorial Day ceremonies at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill., Monday, May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

US President Barack Obama (2nd L) lays a wreath as he participates in a Memorial Day Ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetary in Elwood, Illinios, May 31, 2010. A large thunderstorm opened up just as President Obama's Memorial Day ceremony was getting underway. It grew so violent so quickly that the White House pulled the president out, but not before he went to the microphone and ordered thousands to get to a place of safety. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

An honor guard member salutes during the trooping of the colors, before Vice President Joe Biden spoke at Arlington National Cemetery, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, 2010, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

DALLAS, TEXAS - MARCH 10: Motorcycle daredevil Robbie Knievel greets returning U.S. servicemen and women on Memorial Day at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport May 31, 2010 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Vice President Joe Biden lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, 2010, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

ARLINGTON, VA - MAY 31: A member of the 3rd Infantry Ceremonial Guard passes out from the heat during the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns during Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery May 31, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. Temperatures reached the 90s during the 142nd Memorial Day observance at the cemetery. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A U.S soldier observes a moment of silence during a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the main U.S. base in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 31, 2010. The U.S. military death toll in the Afghan conflict reached the 1,000 mark on May 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

A Philippine soldier blows his bugle along the halls displaying engraved names of soldiers fallen during the World War II at the commemoration of US Memorial Day at the Manila American Cemetery in Fort Bonifacio, Manila on May 30, 2010. At least 17,000 graves lay in the memorial park that pays tribute to US and Philippines soldiers that fought side by side during World War II. TOPSHOTS AFP PHOTO/NOEL CELIS (Photo credit should read NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)

US war veteran salutes as the US national anthem is played during a service to honour soldiers who fell during World War II marking US Memorial Day at the Manila American Cemetery in Fort Bonifacio, Manila on May 30, 2010. At least 17,000 graves lay in the memorial park that pays tribute to US and Philippines soldiers that fought side by side during World War II. AFP PHOTO/NOEL CELIS (Photo credit should read NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)

The first wave of thousands of motorcycle riders take part in the annual Rolling Thunder demonstration, crossing the Memorial Bridge in front of Arlington Cemetery to pay their respects at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, May 30, 2010. The Memorial Day event's organizers hope to use the motorcycle ride to raise attention to the issue of prisoners of war and members of the armed forces who are missing in action (POW/MIA). REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY)

A veteran who said he is know by the name \"Traveler\" of Pennsylvania prays over the name of his friend Carol Drazba, at Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington Sunday, May 30, 2010. Traveler said Drazba was one of very few women who died in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Troop 433 Cub Scouts Matthew Vargo, 7, left, of Pepper Pike, Ohio, and Evan Smith, 7, of Lyndhurst, Ohio place a flag on the grave of a veteran in Knollwood Cemetery in Mayfield Hts., Ohio on Saturday, May 29, 2010. The boys and their troop were walking the entire cemetery placing flags at the graves of veterans in honor of Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

Arlington, Virginia, resident David Presson takes his daughter Abigail, 8, on a \"history & life\" lesson and visit Arlington National Cemetery May 28, 2010, placing flowers at the gravesite of US Army Pfc. Ross A. McGinnis, whom they have no direct connection with, and who earned the Silver Star Medal for taking the force of a grenade explosion to save his fellow soldiers in Baghdad on December 4, 2006. Presson and his daughter researched heroic US soldiers and is reading the entire record of McGinnis's heroism, from his Iphone. They visited several heroic fallen soldiers gravesites as part of his Memorial Day \"history & life\" lessons with his daughter. AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

Father David Clemmons (C) and unidentified friendS stand at the gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery of his son May 28, 2010. US Air Force Master Sgt. Brad A. Clemmons who was killed serving the United States Aug 21, 2006 in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 37-year-old Chillicothe airman was killed in the line of duty when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Iraq and had earlier received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. His father and friends ride their motorcycles from Ohio to vist the gravesite on Memorial Days. AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

epa02176211 Soldiers of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) are given grave decorating flags from the back of a truck during the 'Flags In' ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, USA, 27 May 2010. The ceremony known as 'Flags In' is performed to commemorate and honor US military personnel ahead of the upcoming 31 May 2010 Memorial Day and has been conducted annually since 1948. Soldiers of 3rd US Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) are joined by service members from the US Marine Corps Ceremonial and Guard Company, US Navy Ceremonial Guard , US Air Force Honor Guard and the US Coast Guard Ceremonial Honor Guard in placing more than 250,000 grave decorating flags in the cemetery. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

Monica McNeal (R) cries as she hugs a U.S. Marine at the grave (L) of her 19-year-old son Eric Ward, at Arlington National Cemetery, May 27, 2010. Lance Corporal Eric Ward, a fourth-generation U.S. Marine, was killed in Afghanistan on February 21, 2010. The United State is commemorating Memorial Day this weekend. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY IMAGES OF THE DAY)