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99001045 [1] Added to NRHP. August 27, 1999. Springfield National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Springfield, in Greene County, Missouri. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 18.1 acres (7.3 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 14,685 interments.
July 9, 1998. Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is an American military cemetery located in St. Louis County, Missouri, just on the banks of the Mississippi River. The cemetery was established after the American Civil War in an attempt to put together a formal network of military cemeteries. It started as the Jefferson Barracks Military Post ...
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [1] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been established. [2]
Glenwood Memorial Gardens in Broomall was established in 1923 as New Glenwood Cemetery [1] and the first burials took place in February 1924. [2] The cemetery was built on 51 acres of farm land purchased from Eleanor F. Baker in 1921. [1] In 1938, Old Glenwood Cemetery was taken by eminent domain by the city of Philadelphia.
November 13, 1982. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died ...
United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers. The U.S. Veterans Affairs seal. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains many cemeteries specifically devoted to veterans. Most have various rules regarding what must take place in order to be interred there.
A remarkable photograph of an American bald eagle perched atop of a veteran's gravestone went viral on Memorial Day, and reminded the nation the true reason for the national holiday.Sunday evening ...
Aurora: Aurora American Legion and VFW will honor those who died while serving in the U.S. military with a wreath laying ceremony, planned at 10:15 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Park, 40 W. Garfield ...