You saw one of the traditions associated with the Memorial Day right there. The President laid a wreath in Arlington National Cemetery. Memorial Day pays tribute to the men and women who died while serving in the US Arm Forces. Ceremonies around the country honor their sacrifices. Another tradition focuses on the sons and daughters of those fallen US troops. A J has more.

 

This is the good **. 11-year-old K lost his father, air forces captain K T in a helicopter accident Italy 4 and half years ago. K and his brother C are joining 1200 children, parents and other families of fallen service members as part of events sponsored by the Tragedy Assistance Program for survivors or *. The * family looks forward to each year.

 

I brought my kid 5 months after my husband died, because I wanted they to know they were not the only kids who lost their parents, either mother or father, in the military. And I want them to know that there’s a place they can go to where they feel normal and what they thought they don’t have to always talk about what happened. But we’re here for the same reason.

 

T has been bringing survivors together on Memorial Day weekend since 1994 with grief some hours for the adults and the daycare for the kids.

 

Grief is not a mental wellness. Grief is not a physical injury. Grief is a wound of the heart. And they absolute most therapeutic comfort for someone who is grieving a loss of a loved one to talk with. Another young widow was pregnant at the time of the loss; a mom was grieving the loss of her only child.

 

What does this weekend mean to you?

 

What does it mean to you?

 

Like, even though * or parents or your husband or wife died, because all we have fun and that’s I think, that’s what it can solve.

 

For families like D, this weekend is an important reminder, they are not alone.

 

If you go to the spotlight section on our homepage, you will see a link to something called Home Enter Way. This is an interactive site that let people pay tribute to US Service Members who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and share memories of the fallen.

 

Some Memorial Day’s activities in the south distant of the US were cancelled because of the storm. Florida and J especially felt the effects of this. It was called Beryl. You can get the sense of the kind of impact it had from the winds and waves in this video. The storm was downgraded to a tropical depression by yesterday. But it still caused some damage along the East Coast. Thousands of people lost power; some roads were closed because power line’s been down. A B has more details on this kind of storms including how they get their names and the role that they play in global weather.

 

The tropical cyclone is an air of low pressure that forms in the tropical regions of the world. Cyclones are actually very important, even though, of course, they can be deadly; they help essentially balance out the temperature across the globe. They are an equalizer. So they take the heat energy from the tropics, and they translate that what we need it into the colder climates. The generic term for it is a tropical cyclone. They can refer to any cyclone that has a closed center circulation anywhere in the world, like the Atlantic, when it gets strong enough to a certain wind speed become hurricanes, but if in the western Pacific, a hurricane is called typhoon. There’s no difference between a hurricane and a typhoon except in the name. They are both tropical cyclone. The naming system is based on the World Meteorological Organization. There’s a list of names depending on the basing, in the Atlantic basing, we recycle the names every 6 years. If a storm becomes particularly intense, or is devastating for a coastline, or has a lot of casualties associated with it, we retire the name and don’t use it again, for example, Hurricane Katrina. That name we’ll never use it again.