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‘It’s overwhelming’: Soldiers honor fallen heroes at Arlington’s Memorial Day ‘Flags In’ tradition

Members of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, known as The Old Guard, place flags at the gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in preparation for Memorial Day and to honor the U.S. service members buried there. (Mike Glenn/The Washington Times)

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

On Memorial Day, each gravesite of the more than 260,000 U.S. service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery will have a small American flag carefully positioned exactly one boot’s length away from the headstone.

Delicate China-Japan- Korea summit fails to deliver major breakthroughs

A TV screen shows file images of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese Premier Li Qiang, right, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks in more than four years, South Korea's presidential office announced Thursday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Expectations ahead of a high-profile China, Japan and South Korea joint summit had been modest, and Monday’s outcome confirmed the accuracy of the predictions.

A TV screen shows file images of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese Premier Li Qiang, right, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks in more than four years, South Korea's presidential office announced Thursday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Delicate China-Japan- Korea summit fails to deliver major breakthroughs

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court, April 16, 2024, in New York. The testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial is all wrapped up after more than four weeks and nearly two dozen witnesses, meaning the case heads into the pivotal final stretch of closing arguments, jury deliberations and possibly a verdict. (Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP, Pool, File)

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Hues of red and blue color the dawn at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. Control of Congress and of President Joe Biden's agenda on Capitol Hill are at stake this Election Day. Energized Republicans are working to claw back power in the House and Senate and end the Democratic Party's hold on Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-NY), visits the Memory and Human Rights Museum in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Ocasio-Cortez is part of a U.S. delegation that traveled to the South American country to learn about efforts to defend its democracy ahead of the 50th anniversary of the military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) **FILE**

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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur, Tuesday March 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Memorial Day messages from Democrat lawmakers mix up military observances

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-NY), visits the Memory and Human Rights Museum in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Ocasio-Cortez is part of a U.S. delegation that traveled to the South American country to learn about efforts to defend its democracy ahead of the 50th anniversary of the military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) **FILE**

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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur, Tuesday March 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Memorial Day messages from Democrat lawmakers mix up military observances

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Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

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Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan oversees debate over a voting bill in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Former President Donald Trump reissued his endorsement of David Covey in his challenge to Texas House Speaker Phelan ahead of their runoff Republican primary election on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur, Tuesday March 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, gestures as she speaks about her home life as a child and what drove her to a career in law and to author several books including an autobiography, "The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor," Aug. 17, 2019, at the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

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Members of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, known as The Old Guard, place flags at the gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in preparation for Memorial Day and to honor the U.S. service members buried there. (Mike Glenn/The Washington Times)

‘It’s overwhelming’: Soldiers honor fallen heroes at Arlington’s Memorial Day ‘Flags In’ tradition

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan guided missile destroyer Ma Kong DDG1805, left, monitors Chinese guided missile destroyer Xi'an DDG15, right, near Taiwan on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Taiwan tracked dozens of Chinese warplanes and navy vessels off its coast Friday on the second day of a large exercise China's People's Liberation Army held in response to the inauguration of the island's new leadership. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)

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In this April 8 photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, (left) attends a luncheon with then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, during a visit by a Congressional delegation to Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan. Six House lawmakers arrived Sunday, May 26, 2024 in Taiwan to meet with the democratically run island's new administration despite threats from China urging the U.S. representatives to stay away. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP, File)

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Mourners hold photos of the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during a vigil in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Raisi and several other officials were found dead on Monday after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous region of Iran's northwest. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-NY), visits the Memory and Human Rights Museum in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Ocasio-Cortez is part of a U.S. delegation that traveled to the South American country to learn about efforts to defend its democracy ahead of the 50th anniversary of the military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) **FILE**

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One New York borough has a compliment or two for former President Donald Trump. “The Bronx County Conservative Party would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Republican Presidential candidate and Conservative Party endorse Donald J.Trump for visiting the Bronx," said Gonzalo Duran, vice chairman of the Bronx County Conservative Party, in a statement. (AP PHOTO)

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Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan oversees debate over a voting bill in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Former President Donald Trump reissued his endorsement of David Covey in his challenge to Texas House Speaker Phelan ahead of their runoff Republican primary election on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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FILE - A member of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment also known as The Old Guard, places flags in front of each headstone for "Flags-In" at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, May 25, 2023, to honor the Nation's fallen military heroes ahead of Memorial Day. Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and retail discounts. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

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Members of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, known as The Old Guard, place flags at the gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in preparation for Memorial Day and to honor the U.S. service members buried there. (Mike Glenn/The Washington Times)

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