Community members braved spotted showers as they ventured through Fort Stewart’s costal Georgia Nov. 14 for the latest Fall Cemetery Tour that featured four cemeteries, each belonging to communities ...
Walter Napier III, Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth deputy command historian, shared some of his research on the National Cemetery Administration, American Battle Monuments Commission and the ...
During a Memorial Day ceremony held at the Presidio of Monterey, members of a firing squad give a 21-gun salute for service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice. The 21-gun salute is one of the ...
The cemetery is inviting the public to provide feedback on "alternatives that will avoid, minimize or mitigate adverse effects of the monument's removal." In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson unveiled ...
White crosses, a historic military guard dog sign and a tribute marker decorate Loring's Sentry Dog Cemetery on Friday. The Loring Air Museum will soon work to restore the spot. Credit: Paula Brewer / ...
A photo from 2004 shows a tugboat towing the decommissioned aircraft carrier Midway past Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery to San Diego Bay. At the time, it was stated that Midway would be moored ...
The cemetery, consisting of 639 acres, is the final resting place of approximately 400,000 veterans and their dependents. (Nathan Howard/AP) ARLINGTON, Va. — A Confederate memorial is to be removed ...
On Sept 12, 1845 the steamship "Dayton" exploded in Corpus Christi bay near Ingleside. The ship was transporting U.S. soldiers from Gen. Taylor's army which was encamped on North Beach. The boiler ...
The roots of John Knox’s despondence are lost to history. But his suicide made the newspaper: In 1895, he tied one end of a rope around his neck and the other around a stone block. Then he threw ...
Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Approximately 1 million African American ...