Photos: America's fallen soldiers honored on Memorial Day

Army Spc. Matthew Burt, 25, with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment known as "The Old Guard," places flags on the graves at Arlington National Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




Anita Dixon, whose son Army Sgt. Evan Parker was killed while serving in Iraq in 2005, kisses the graves in section 60, where many of the casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)




Korean War veteran Robert Bruce, 80, walks among the graves of military veterans at West Park Cemetary in Brooklyn, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)




John DeFruscio, 7, of Collegeville, Pa., walks on the edge of a field of flags on Boston Common. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)




A Philippine Army soldier practices taps before the start of ceremonies for U.S. Memorial Day at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, said to be the largest to house U.S. troops killed during World War II, at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig city, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday May 30, 2010. More than 17,000 American military, including 570 Filipinos who served with the U.S. Forces in the southwest Pacific, have been laid to rest in this cemetery. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)




An officer walks along tombstones during U.S. Memorial Day at the Manila American Cemetery. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)




David Borden prays over the name of his friend Lanny Buroff at Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)




Danethe Perreira reacts after seeing her friend Edward Loo's name etched in the wall of Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)




Richard Simmons pauses in front of the name of his friend Flecher Louis on the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)




Marine Cpl. Patrick LeBlanc and his wife Kimberly of Greensboro, N.C., visit the gravesite of Patrick's platoon commander, Marine 2nd Lt. John Thomas Wroblewski at Arlington National Cemetery. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)




A military challenge coin presented by Navy VADM Dirk J. Debbink rests atop the headstone of a fallen sailor at Arlington National Cemetery. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)




Members of the 63rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company C stand in formation to put a marker from their company on one of the monuments at the Sewickley Cemetery. (AP Photo/Beaver County Times, Lucy Schaly)




U.S. soldiers gather for a ceremony marking the Memorial Day at the main U.S. base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)




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. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)




U.S. soldiers pray during a Memorial Day ceremony at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)




Vice President Joe Biden lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)




An honor guard member salutes during the trooping of the colors at Arlington National Cemetery. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)




Crews place U.S. flags near graves at Evergreen Washelli cemetery in Seattle, Wash.




Visitors walk away from graves at Arlington National Cemetery, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, 2010, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)




Bob Irving and his wife Ina Irving walk at Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock, Ark., after visiting the grave of their son, a 15-year Navy veteran. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)




President Barack Obama pauses after laying a wreath, before a Memorial Day ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)




World War II Veteran Ed Lipinsky, 83, of Middle Village, N.Y., salutes during the National Anthem at the Memorial Day parade in the Brooklyn. (AP Photo/David Goldman)




John O'Herron, of Leavenworth, Kan., visits his parents' graves at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery Monday. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)




Charon Rivers, the mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas E. Rivers Jr., who was killed in Afghanistan in April 2010, visits her son's grave at The Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Bernard Troncale)




Children walk along the beach at the Arlington West War memorial during Memorial Day observance in Santa Monica, Calif. The crosses represent U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)




Kym Yates, sister of Army Spc. Michael E. Yates, Jr., who was killed in Baghdad on May 11, 2009, is consoled by her mother, Shawna Machlinski in Timonium, Md. at ceremonies honoring Yates and nine others servicemen who died in the past year in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Baltimore Sun, Jed Kirschbaum)




People walk through the vast rows of military dead after a Memorial Day ceremony at the Marietta National Cemetery on Monday, May 31, 2010 in Marietta, Ga. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)