'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
In the 1860s, the U.S. government declared Decoration Day as a day of remembrance to honor those who had died in our nation's service during the Civil War. Memorial Day was officially proclaimed in May 1868, and after World War I the holiday was changed from honoring the Civil War dead to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war.
Senators voted 97-0 Thursday to confirm Srikanth Srinivasan to a judgeship on the vitally important U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia after Republicans relented and allowed the vote to go forward this week.
Honoring the military and those who served will be the focus at the Coca-Cola 600 this Memorial Day weekend.
!["I can remember the first year I went, there were probably a few hundred to a thousand riders," says Scott Silverthorne, mayor of the City of Fairfax, of the Memorial Day event. "Today you can't even count them. They're all the way down Fairfax Boulevard [Route 29], probably 1 to 2 miles down the road."
(Kenneth Lyons)](http://media.washtimes.com/media/image/2013/05/23/5_232013_ride-rolling-thun-78201_s101x67.jpg?3f8f75feaa16a88f2d94cdcab8953f23a5f589cd)
It started more than a decade ago, a few hundred motorcycle riders looking for an informal group to join for a 20-mile trip through Northern Virginia to the Pentagon, where nearly a half-million fellow bikers idled before the national Rolling Thunder event.
For Vietnam veteran and professional photographer Patrick Hughes, the self-portrait he would have shot back in 1993 would not have been a particularly cheerful one.
For Tom Bender, fighting for his fellow veterans means more than showing up once a year in Washington for an awe-inspiring motorcycle rally.
Actor Gary Sinise has years of experience helping the nation's veterans and first responders. Today, The Gary Sinise Foundation has taken that advocacy to a new level. Whether it's through his concerts with the Lt. Dan Band or by building "smart homes" for wounded war fighters, his work demonstrates that the nation's responsibility to its troops extends well beyond Memorial Day.
Memorial Day travelers will have slightly less company on the roads this year because of the effects of sequestration, travel officials said Tuesday.
On Memorial Day, we all have a chance to remember the real peace marchers of the world.
Kurt Busch would like to try racing 1,100 miles some Memorial Day weekend.
The only certainty at the unveiling of NASCAR's new car was that the Gen-6 was aesthetically pleasing.
“Sequestration,” which sounds like an impolite stomach ailment that almost nobody can spell and few understand, now gets really interesting. With the sequestration deadline having passed, the White House is under siege by reality.
Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again.
Thousands of children were murdered by the Nazis because they fell short of the Aryan ideal. On Friday, a hushed audience gathered in Austria's Parliament to watch the world premiere of an opera depicting how the Nazis methodically killed mentally or physically deficient children at a Vienna hospital during World War II.
The boardwalk where generations of families and teens got their first taste of the Jersey Shore and where the MTV reality show of the same name was filmed is about to be rebuilt following its destruction in Superstorm Sandy.
!["I can remember the first year I went, there were probably a few hundred to a thousand riders," says Scott Silverthorne, mayor of the City of Fairfax, of the Memorial Day event. "Today you can't even count them. They're all the way down Fairfax Boulevard [Route 29], probably 1 to 2 miles down the road."
(Kenneth Lyons)](http://media.washtimes.com/media/image/2013/05/23/5_232013_ride-rolling-thun-78201_s300x199.jpg?9095da026e6820e57b439d06d098b7b108fa2f86)
