For the first time since 2019, a crowd gathered at Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery for a service to honor the fallen.
The gravesites at Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery were marked with American flags waving in the stiff breeze as far as the eye could see.
"Well today is a beautiful day," Virginia Treadway said sitting next to her veteran husband Larry's flower-lined headstone."I told him when we first got here, we have lots of company today!" The crowds came back for the first time since the pandemic for a Memorial Day ceremony at the cemetery. "Today our nation pauses for Memorial Day," 10th Air Force Commander Major General Bryan Radliff said."When called, we will defend our freedom. We will defend our communities. We will defend one another, and we will defend our way of life."Download NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth