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Posted: 5/28/2012
The Associated Press(AP) -- Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed flags on 42,000 graves. In Little Rock, Ark., a 4-year-old girl fills her arms with flags to place on gravesites.Across the U.S. this weekend, Americans are honoring the fallen, veterans and military personnel in ceremonies and private remembrances.Here's a gallery of AP photos from Memorial Day weekend.VIEW SLIDESHOW OF MEMORIAL DAY PHOTOS BELOWA flag decorates a headstone at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West on Friday, May 25, 2012, in Hopkinsville, Ky. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)World War II veteran Jesse R. Turner embraces Helen Marie Misel at a display of over more than 1700 United States flags in Shawnee, Kan., Saturday, May 26, 2012. Turner served in the Army Air Corps. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)Madeline Grace Wallace, 4, carries flags at the National Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, May 25, 2012. The girl and her mother visited the cemetery to place flags on graves for Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)Madeline Grace Wallace, 4, daughter of U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Wendy Wallace, picks up flags to take to her mother to place on graves for Memorial Day at National Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)Volunteer Red Flegal of New London, Pa., helps a visitor with a rubbing of a name on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Carrying small American flags, Boy Scouts Austin Moore, right and Bryant Conquest, look for any grave markers without a flag in the Vicksburg National Cemetery in Vicksburg, Miss., Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Andrew Lewis, right, and Devon Martell, center, both from Smithsburg, Md., look at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Wendy Wallace and her daughter Madeline Grace, 4, place flags at