In honor of Memorial Day, Kroger’s Columbus Division is offering a discount to military members.

Along with the festivities to look forward to, many restaurants and stores are offering food deals to help get through the weekend. Memorial Day, on Monday, May 26, is a national holiday meant to honor deceased members of the United States military.

Despite the wet weather, people across North Texas were honoring the fallen, including at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery and Fort Worth's historic Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Today is Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day, traces its roots to the aftermath of the Civil War. Communities across the United States-North and South, Black and White-began the tradition of decorating soldiers’ graves with flowers in springtime to honor those who died in the conflict[1][2].

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial start of summer. Here are a few things to know.