Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a time in the US to remember all Americans who died while serving in the US Armed Forces.

It was a tradition started after the American Civil War which people in the North and the South took a day to remember or visit the graves love ones and friends served and died in the Civil War. Now a days some still honor the falling but many others see it as only the start of summer.  

The following is a list of some Wars, Conflict and Operations which US Service people died in action. (Hopefully my list is correct and sorry if I missed any.)

American Revolutionary War 1775–1783

Franco-American War 1798–1800

First Barbary War (1801–1805) aka the Tripolitan War or the Barbary Coast War

War of 1812, 1812–1815

Second Barbary War (1815) aka the Algerine or Algerian War

Mexican–American War 1846–1848

American Civil War 1861–1865 (Remembrance of Union & Confederates)

Spanish–American War 1898

World War I 1917–1918

World War II 1937–1945

Korean War 1950–1953

Vietnam War 1955–1975

Multinational Force in Lebanon 1982

The Invasion of Grenada 1983

United States Bombing of Libya 1986

The USS Stark incident 1987

Support and Operations to Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War 1980–1988

The Invasion of Panama 1989–1990

Persian Gulf War 1990–1991
The Battle of Mogadishu aka Black Hawk Down 1993

Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti) 1994–1995

The USS Cole bombing October 12, 2000

War on Terror 2001–present

Also will I’m adding the US- American Indian Wars (Remembrance of US Soldiers as well as the American Indian Warriors on both sides)

I thank all those living and dead who served and their families for their scrafice.

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