PBS’s National Memorial Day Concert Lineup Includes Tributes To Vietnam War POWs, Gold Star Families

PBS’s National Memorial Day Concert will return on May 28 with a lineup that includes a tribute to Vietnam War POWs and Gold Star families, as well as a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice and a remembrance of World War II

will again host the event, which will take place at the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Those scheduled to appear include Trace Adkins, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Slattery, Dulé Hill, Yolanda Adams, Mary McCormack, Jo Dee Messina, The War and Treaty, Chosen Jacobs, Phillip Phillips, Megan Hilty and Jack Everly conducting the National Symphony Orchestra.

The tribute to Gold Star families will feature Merkerson, Hill and Jacobs, and will include the story of three generations of one family and the grief they experienced when the oldest child, Sgt. Anthony O. Magee, was killed in action while on deployment in Iraq. The commemoration of the Korean War Armistice will include veterans of that war, along with a remembrance of the more than 36,000 lives lost.

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