Military Honors Its Own
Associated Press
Tuesday, May 29, 2007; Page A04
NEW YORK, May 28 -- Veterans and active-duty troops unfurled a 90-by-100-foot American flag as the nation's top commander in the Middle East spoke to a Memorial Day crowd gathered in Central Park on Monday.
Navy Adm. William Fallon, commander of U.S. Central Command, said the nation should remember those whom the holiday honors.
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"Their sacrifice has enabled us to enjoy the things that we, I think in many cases, take for granted," he said.
A tribute at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery was marked with 1,200 new gravestones for Civil War veterans whose graves were recently rediscovered after a nearly five-year search.
The cemetery, founded in 1838, is the burial place for nearly 600,000 people, including veterans from every American war, said Richard J. Moylan, its president.
At Fort Bragg, N.C., the Army honored 13 Green Berets and 109 former Green Berets who died during the past year.
"We always could count on our Special Forces brothers to be there with us, regardless of the odds against us," Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Csrnko said at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Army's Special Forces Command.
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