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Lincoln Birthplace to participate in Memorial Day service

The tribute will feature livestreams, demonstrations, historic talks, a wreath-laying ceremony, a “Taps” salute, reading of names and a national cemetery tour.

Credit: Dennis Ting, WHAS11

The sign outside the Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park in Hodgenville, KY

HODGENVILLE, Ky. — The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace will help host a virtual Memorial Day service saluting America’s fallen soldiers. The national historical park in central Kentucky said in a statement that it will join 29 others to put on a social media event Monday that will start at 8 a.m. and last more than 13 hours.

The statement says the tribute will feature livestreams, demonstrations, historic talks and other activities including a video tribute of park rangers from Maryland to Montana reciting the “Gettysburg Address."

Other highlights include a National Moment of Remembrance, a wreath-laying ceremony, a “Taps” salute, reading of names and a national cemetery tour.

PHOTOS | Soldiers place flags on headstones in Arlington National Cemetery ahead of Memorial Day 2020

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May 21, 2020: Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) place U.S. flags at headstones as part of Flags-In at Arlington National Cemetery. For more than 50 years, soldiers from The Old Guard have honored our nation’s fallen military heroes by placing U.S. flags at gravesites of service members buried at both Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery just prior to the Memorial Day weekend. Over 1,000 soldiers place over 250,000 flags in front of every headstone, and columbarium and niche wall column.

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Posted by Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park on Sunday, May 3, 2020