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The pandemic, a frontline worker knew she had to act. rob: as our boston affiliate reports, she soldiered on to set up the display of stars and stripes. >> every memorial day flags flood the boston column, more than 39,000 fluter in the breezes to honor those who we lost. >> this is what were about. >> reporter: this year, the event to honor those heroes fell victim to covid-19. >> right now, with the pandemic, its taken a lot from everyone and i file like we need something to celebrate. >> repo...

Rob: chris says its ridiculous to put this in the paper on memorial day weekend. how do you respond to that. >> today for memorial day we honor those who fought and gave their lives for our country. for that we are thankful and give utmost gratitude for them. we have to remember a significant amount of people that fight in our military are african american and die for our country and i think racism is important for us to discuss and consider that we have military bases and we should consider thi...

I think its important for us to start putting forth an agenda. thats something i do agree with charlamagne. i dont care about the apology or what joe biden says. i care what he does. his agenda itemizes the issues plaguing the african american community and the ways he will address. thats what i want to see. no more lip service. i want to see action. jillian: kimberley, your final thought. >> if trump signed them, how come president obama didnt sign them and push them through. people are going b...

♪ >> arthel: the democratic nominee joe biden out on this memorial day, making his first in person appearance since mid-march. to lay a wreath at the delaware veterans memorial park. the former vp is still dealing with the fallout over his comments of black voters in a radio interview that aired friday morning. peter doocys life with more on the 2020 race, hey, peter. >> arthel, it had been ten and

To bring affordable, reliable, ever cleaner energy to america. ♪ ♪ >> kennedy: a very dismal memorial day for millions of americans as we honor the men and women who died serving our nation. hello, everyone welcome to americas new headquarters. >> so good to be with you, im leland vittert in d.c. and how the not so different and what we are celebrating and the thanks we give. the president and the presumptive democratic nominee took part in memorial events. president trump laid a wreath at t...

♪ [taps] jill the star-studded event hosted by gary sinise and joe honoring our military men and women. and remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice. come here next to moods i can just feel it. shared feel storied aing to this years special broadcast. the annual event honoring military heroes since 1989. send it back to you. ainsley: thats so sad. i like seeing their pictures just so you know who is buried there. look at that. these are peoples family members so, sad, but we thank the...

National arlington national cemetery, family members with pl passage to honor their loved ones were all required to wear face mask. emboss to him instead of planting 37,000 flags on boston common to honor every massachusetts veteran killed in action since the revolution, a few volunteers plant to 1,000 flags spaced 6 feet apart and a nod to the social distancing required to beat this pandemic. normally the names of 336 massachusetts veterans killed since 9/11 would have been read. here that cere...

Friend. thank you for your service and more of a reminder of how we should act and be grateful. thats what we think of. we are all at each others throats, remember. remember. ["taps" playing] ♪

Arlington national cemetery where the services went virtual to limit crowds. and allowed to visit two on her loved ones but all required to wear a face mask spirit in boston instead of planting 37,000 flags on boston common to honor every massachusetts veteran killed in action since the revolution, a few volunteers planted 1,000 flags spaced 6 feet apart a nod to social distancing required to beat this pandemic. normally the names of 336 massachusetts veterans killed since 9/11 would have been r...

That particular time, we had 10%, 10% of all americans were engaged directly in combat, we lost 2% of our total population and yet, that was a time in which we were really learning the lessons, we overcame great barriers. we did away with the scourge of slavery and it was necessary. something our forefathers during the revolution failed to do. weve been through a lot. the great depression lasted an entire decade, we are three months into this epidemic but the great depression cost us 25% of unem...