Here are some of The Providence Journal's most-read stories for the week of Nov. 2, supported by your subscriptions .

More than 40 monuments at the Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery provide a lesson in history and honor the state's service members. With Veterans Day approaching, The Journal's Jack Perry highlights some of them , including the new Gold Star Families Memorial, and shares his thoughts about two Marines who served six decades apart : his father, who returned home from his service during World War II, and Lance Cpl. Holly Charette, of Rhode Island, who was killed in Iraq in 2005.

Thanksgiving may be weeks away, but if you don't plan to cook, now's the time to make arrangements to dine out or order takeout from area restaurants.

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