At Pearl Harbor, a Solemn Remembrance
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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Dec. 7 -- One by one, survivors from ships sunk 65 years ago Thursday in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor laid wreaths under life-preserver rings honoring their ships.
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With candles and prayers, songs and moments of silence, Japan on Monday mournfully marked the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that ripped through the port city of Kobe, killing nearly 6,500 people and demonstrating the vulnerability of modern metropolises to natural disasters.
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Colleagues and crew men wept as they paid their respects to the &quot;excellent&quot; officer who was a victim of the fire on board a Canadian submarine.
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People walking by mock coffins in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during a tribute to the more than 1,100 US service personnel killed so far in the Iraq war.
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The children of the victims of Sept. 11 deal with the burden of mourning a private loss that is historic in stature.
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"Let remembrance of this serve as a shield that will protect us and generations to come against resentment, hate, aggression, racism and anti-Semitism"  In a ceremony near the rubble of the gas chambers, a representative of Polish President Lech Kaczynski said the world should remember those who saved the lives of others during the six years of World War II, ... via Ynetnews
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In New York City, where most of the victims of 9/11 were killed, and other sites, the remembrances blossomed early.
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - World leaders and survivors  stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust on Thursday at  a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th  anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
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Thousands have gathered at a cemetery in the Iranian city of Bam to remember the 30,000 killed in last year&#39;s earthquake, ending a 12-month mourning period but with the scars of the tragedy still painfully clear.
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Exactly two years after terrorist bombs killed 202 people on the Indonesian island of Bali, families and friends of the victims and survivors have gathered to remember their fallen loved ones.
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For 65 years, the wreck of the USS Arizona has been leaking oil from its grave at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, staining the water, visitors often say, as if it were the ship's blood.
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Groton ââ When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 63 years ago today, Catherine Kolnaski was just about 20 years old and training to become a nurse at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
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Americans stood in silence to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11 attacks on Tuesday as Osama bin Laden resurfaced to praise the suicide hijackers who carried them out six years ago to the day.
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U.S. forces and their allies in Afghanistan remembered the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in somber fashion Saturday, conscious that the war on terror will be a long one.
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For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, victims' families gathered to mark the anniversary not where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood, but at a nearby gray stone plaza.
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HUNDREDS of people came together on Sunday to lay wreaths and salute those who lost their lives during the two world wars and other conflicts.
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Six veterans of the Battle of Midway and about 1,800 people ventured to this remote atoll on Monday to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the fight that marked a turning point in World War II.