Memorial day

First Lt. Alex Bobuck checks equipment during a dry run at Exeter Airfield prior to D-Day (National Archives).
Destination Normandy
...History net publishes an excerpt from Excerpted from Tonight We Die As Men by Ian Gardner and Roger Day

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Another country, another Memorial day:

From the InternationalHeraldTribune:
The Iraqi government declared May 16 as Mass Grave Day to commemorate the day when the first such grave was uncovered near the Shiite town of Mahaweel, about 56 kilometers (35 miles) south of Baghdad.

Human rights organizations estimate that more than 300,000 people, mainly Kurds and Shiite Muslims, were killed and buried in mass graves before Saddam was overthrown by U.S. forces in 2003.
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and AFP reports that they just found the 49th mass grave in Najaf province...

(headsupGatewayPundit)

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An amateur is busy mapping North Korea, and finds a lot of information, including what they believe are mass graves created in the 1995-98 famine that killed an estimated two million people

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Most of the US Memorial day will be about World War II or more recent wars. But the horrors of the Great War are also in the news:

The ....and a French priest is busy finding the victims shot by Hitler in the Ukraine...and Slovenia just discovered the graves of post war executions by the communists.

But the graves go on forever:
The Brits are trying to identify commonwealth soldiers whose bodies were found...this is from one World War I battle...
The number of missing-in-action from that war is staggering: `165,000 from the Commonwealth, but 2.5 missing from Russia, 1 million from Germany and 2 million from Austria-Hungary.

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and all the above doesn't cover the lost graves in Asia or Africa....