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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America US troops in Afghanistan mark Memorial Day By HEIDI VOGT,Associated Press Writers - Monday, May 31 Send IM Story Print BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan remembered friends and colleagues Monday in solemn Memorial Day ceremonies to commemorate all of their nation's war dead. The nearly 9-year-old war raged on, meanwhile, with NATO forces launching airstrikes against Taliban insurgents who had forced government forces to abandon the Barg-e-Matal district in Nuristan, an eastern province on the border with Pakistan. No casualty figures were given. At the sprawling Bagram Air Field, the largest U.S. military base, about 400 soldiers in camouflage uniforms and brown combat boots stood at attention for a moment's silence as Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of some 94,000 U.S. troops in the country, led the ceremony. A bugler played taps and a color guard displayed the U.S. flag and the flags of units serving in eastern Afghanistan where the base is located, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Kabul. A steel construction beam from the World Trade Center destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was unveiled, with the inscription "WTC 9 11 01". The beam was donated by citizens' group the Sons and Daughters of America of Breezy Point, a suburb in Queens, New York, where 29 victims of the Sept. 11 attacks lived, according to a letter read out at the ceremony. McChrystal praised the soldiers for their sacrifice. "Today is about people. It is about the people we have lost and most importantly it's about the people who have been left behind," McChrystal said, referring to the families of those who have died. He later attended another ceremony at Camp Morehead, a smaller base for a commando unit. At Bagram, Maj. John Sherwood, 38, of San Antonio, said Memorial Day is more somber in Afghanistan than in the U.S., as people remember friends who died. "I think about a few people I knew, mostly back in Iraq," said Sherwood, of the 82nd Airborne Division based in Fort Bragg. Maj. Sonya Powell, 42, of Cincinnati, said she thought of two people: her executive officer who was killed in an aircraft crash in October, and her 4-year-old son, who is waiting for her to come home. "It's very hard, but you don't dwell on it," said Powell, of the 401st Army Field Support Brigade. "You come here, you do your mission, and you pray." In the latest fighting Monday, NATO aircraft pounded the Taliban in eastern Nuristan province after government forces last week withdrew from the district's main town following a major assault by the militants, many of them coming in from Pakistan, Afghan officials said. Taliban strength grew in Nuristan after U.S. troops abandoned an outpost where eight American soldiers were killed in a fierce attack last October. NATO said it killed a Taliban commander, Haji Amir, and several fighters in an airstrike in the Panjwai district in southern Kandahar province, where troops are laying the groundwork for a major operation. A NATO statement said Amir escaped from prison two years ago and had been directing Taliban attacks in Kandahar from Pakistan until April, when he returned to Afghanistan. NATO reported the death of another service member, taking a tally by The Associated Press to 50 for May _ the deadliest month since February when American, NATO and Afghan forces seized the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Helmand province. NATO did not identify the service member, but Britain's Defense Ministry said Monday that one of its marines had been killed in an explosion in Helmand. May is already the deadliest month of 2010 for U.S. troops, with 33 deaths, and also brought the grim milestone of America's 1,000th military death in the Afghan war since it began in 2001. McChrystal, who is also NATO commander in Afghanistan, said Sunday that while Iran _ Afghanistan's western neighbor _ has generally assisted the Afghan government in fighting the insurgents, "there is clear evidence of Iranian activity _ in some cases providing weaponry and training to the Taliban _ that is inappropriate." He did not elaborate. Last month, McChrystal said indications were that Taliban were training in Iran, but not many and not in a way that suggested it was part of Iranian government policy. In Paktia province, a civilian contractor's helicopter crash-landed Sunday, killing one civilian on the ground and slightly injuring three crew members, NATO said, adding there were no reports of insurgent involvement. In the north, insurgents detonated a bomb Sunday as a police convoy passed, killing seven officers, local officials said. In nearby Kunduz, militants attacked a police checkpoint in Ali Abad district, triggering a gunbattle that killed three insurgents and wounded seven others, the Interior Ministry said. And eight Afghan police were wounded Sunday by a suicide bomber who struck a checkpoint on the outskirts of Khost City southeast of Kabul. The AP's casualty figures are based on Defense Department reports of deaths as a direct result of the Afghan conflict, including personnel assigned to units in Afghanistan, Pakistan or Uzbekistan. Non-U.S. deaths are based on statements by governments with forces in the coalition. ___ Associated Press writers Rahim Faiez and Rohan Sullivan in Kabul contributed to this report. 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