UPI Pictures of the Year 2013 -- NEWS AND FEATURES

Rick Whisenhunt of West Plains, Missouri, mourns his son US Army SFC Jerald Allen Whisenhunt who was killed in Iraq in 2008, at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, in Arlington, Virginia, May 27, 2013. On Memorial Day the nation honors its military veterans and those who have died in the country's conflicts. UPI/Mike Theiler