Photos: Nation pauses to remember, honor veterans

Mark Meirink leaves after visiting the grave of Phillip Vinnedge on Sunday, May 27, 2012, at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. Meirink served with Vinnedge in the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment in Helmand Province, where Vinnedge was killed by a road side bomb in October 2010. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT