Hi, I'm Carl Azuz and this is CNN Student News. We're back to bring you headlines from around the world and out of this world. The U.S. political spotlight is on Texas today, as that state holds its presidential primary election.
We're going to have results on that later on this week. But we start today with some sights and sounds from the Memorial Day weekend.

You saw one of the traditions associated with Memorial Day right there, the president laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery. Memorial Day pays tribute to the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces.
Ceremonies around the country honored their sacrifices .

Another tradition focuses on the sons and daughters of those fallen U.S. troops. Athena Jones has more.

This is the Good Grief Camp. Eleven-year-old Caleb lost his father, Air Force Captain Cortez Durham (ph) in a helicopter accident in Italy 2 years ago. Caleb and his brother, Christian, are joining 1,200 children, parents and other families of fallen service members as part of an event sponsored by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors or TAPS.

The Durham family looks forward to it each year.

I brought my kids five months after my husband died because I wanted them to know they were not the only kids who had lost a parent either mother or father in the military .

And I wanted them to know that there's a place they can go to where they feel normal and where they feel like they don't have to always talk about what happened, that we're all here for the same reason.

TAPS has been bringing survivors together on Memorial Day Weekend since 1994 with grief seminars for the adults and the day camp for the kids.

Grief is not a mental illness. Grief is not a physical injury. Grief is a wound of the heart and the absolute most therapeutic comfort for someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one is to talk with another young widow who was pregnant at the time of the loss, a mom who is grieving the loss of her only child.

What does this weekend mean to you?

What does it mean to you?

That even though your parent or your husband or wife died, you can still have fun. And that's -- I think that's what this camp is for.

For families like the Durhams, this weekend is an important reminder: they're not alone.