Maryland troops identified decades after their deaths will be honored today at a Memorial Day ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Baltimore County. The group Heroes on Water from Carroll County will also be recognized. Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski is among the speakers. The keynote speaker is retired U.S. Marine Corporal and Vietnam Veteran Wayne Miller. Miller lost a leg in combat in 1969 and is now the director of the Vet Center for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Silver Spring. Miller counsels other veterans who have survived combat. (Patch/Baltimore Sun/WJZ)
A Memorial Day parade and two ceremonies will honor Anne Arundel County veterans. (Patch)
The Annapolis Memorial Day parade starts Monday at 10:00am at Amos Garrett Boulevard and West Street. (Patch)
Rockville will hold its Memorial Day parade today. (City of Rockville)
The Crownsville Veterans Cemetery will host a Memorial Day commemoration ceremony Monday at 11:00am. (Patch)
Rep. Wayne Gilcrest will address a Memorial Day gathering in Chestertown. (My Eastern Shore)
Expect big crowds for the summer travel season and big prices too. (Maryland Daily Record)
COMMENTARY by Dan Rodricks: On Memorial Day weekend, honoring the real patriots who saved the union. (Baltimore Sun)
COMMENTARY by Arthur I. Cyr: Memorial Day reflection, renewal. (Kenosha News)
COMMENTARY by Paul Dorsey: Do something meaningful this Memorial Day. (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
Her father died in China in World War II. She set out to discover him. (Washington Post)
Is an air show the proper way to mark Memorial Day? (Newsday)
These Civil War nurses changed America yet never left Annapolis. (Baltimore Banner)
The tangled roots of Memorial Day and why it’s celebrated. (New York Times)
In other news today…
Maryland State Police have ruled the death of a person incarcerated at Jessup Correctional Institution a homicide. (Baltimore Sun)
A shelter-in-place alert in Hampstead ended Sunday evening after Carroll County authorities say they took a person into custody following a barricade situation in the Small Crossings neighborhood that lasted over nine hours. (Baltimore Sun)
The Buy Clean Maryland Act goes into effect on July 1 in Maryland. Delegate Kenneth Kerr (D) of Frederick County sponsored the bill, which passed the General Assembly. It would reduce the pollutants that go into the concrete manufacturing process which accounts for almost 8% of carbon emissions globally. (WYPR)
A Pasadena man was sentenced on Friday to 60 years in prison for the 2020 murder of his 5-year-old sister. (WBAL 1090)
How effective was Baltimore’s youth curfew in its first weekend? (WBFF)
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The Maryland Terrapins baseball team defeated Iowa, 4-0, in the championship game of the Big Ten Tournament on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Orioles managed to avoid a weekend sweep at the hands of the high-powered Texas Rangers Sunday at Camden Yards, winning 3-2. (Camden Chat)
The O’s begin a home series against the Cleveland Guardians. Today’s game is at 1:05pm.
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This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the official end to the Vietnam War, when the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam on March 29, 1973. 3.4 million U.S. service members were deployed to Southeast Asia during the war. 300,000 were wounded. More than 700 were taken prisoner. 2,646 went missing in action with 1,584 still unaccounted for. 58,279 made the ultimate sacrifice.
The 34th annual National Memorial Day Concert in its entirety…
