EditorialStanding at the gravestone of her former husband, Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, Brittany Jacobs of Hertford, N.C., hugs her sons Christian Jacobs and Brayden Jacobs-Mac, as she explains to Christian for the first time how she heard about his father's death, on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 29, 2023. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialStanding at the gravestone of her former husband, Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, Brittany Jacobs of Hertford, N.C., hugs her sons Christian Jacobs and Brayden Jacobs-Mac, as she explains to Christian for the first time how she heard about his father's death, on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 29, 2023. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialStanding at the gravestone of her former husband, Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, Brittany Jacobs of Hertford, N.C., hugs her sons Christian Jacobs and Brayden Jacobs-Mac, as she explains to Christian for the first time how she heard about his father's death, on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 29, 2023. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialStanding at the gravestone of her former husband, Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, Brittany Jacobs of Hertford, N.C., hugs her sons Christian Jacobs and Brayden Jacobs-Mac, as she explains to Christian for the first time how she heard about his father's death, on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 29, 2023. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialStanding at the gravestone of her former husband, Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, Brittany Jacobs of Hertford, N.C., hugs her sons Christian Jacobs and Brayden Jacobs-Mac, as she explains to Christian for the first time how she heard about his father's death, on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 29, 2023. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialStanding at the gravestone of her former husband, Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, Brittany Jacobs of Hertford, N.C., hugs her sons Christian Jacobs and Brayden Jacobs-Mac, as she explains to Christian for the first time how she heard about his father's death, on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 29, 2023. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialRoses are left on a gravestone in memory of the Hardy Tree at St. Pancras Old Church in London on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialA gravestone with the carved image of Russian President Vladimir Putin leans against a highway checkpoint near Druzhkivka, Ukraine, Aug. 7, 2022. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
EditorialA nip of gin in honor of Dorothy Parker during the unveiling of her headstone at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (David Dee Delgado/The New York Times)
EditorialThe gravestone for Reuben Everett, who was killed during the Tulsa Race Massacre, at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Okla., May 25, 2021. (Polly Irungu/The New York Times)
EditorialAn overturned metal gravestone reveals a wooden interior at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, where the majority of tombstones are made out of metal instead of stone, in Brooklyn, May 26, 2021 (Benjamin Norman/The New York Times)
EditorialA gravestone for a nurse who died during the SARS epidemic in 2003, after having contracted the virus from a patient, in Hong Kong on May 7, 2020.