BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Greenlawn Southwest Cemetery and the VFW Post 97 unveiled 18 new headstones to line unmarked veterans’ graves, thanks to the help of Operation Headstone. Along with the 18 ...
CEDAR RAPIDS - Elaine Hensen remembers walking to St. John's Cemetery as a child, where her grandmother, Antonia Hac, regularly placed flowers on the graves of her late husband and a daughter, who ...
The markers of local Civil War veterans can been seen in Cleveland's Woodland Cemetery, but many veterans' graves from that era lack a headstone. Legislation recently introduced in the U.S. Senate ...
Veterans who served our country deserve lasting recognition, and the Department of Veterans Affairs offers just that. The VA provides, at no cost, government-issued headstones, markers or medallions ...
Dirk Andersen says he believes no life is without meaning. It was with that belief that Andersen got fellow members of the Knights of Columbus #844 to provide headstones for nearly two dozen babies ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows is placing markers on the unmarked graves of the less fortunate at the county cemetery. It’s called The Remember Me ...
EVERETT — Behind a shed in Evergreen Cemetery sat a stack of three rows of six concrete headstones wrapped in paper. These 18 headstones are to be set on burial sites for men who lived and died here ...
YORK, Pa. (WHTM) — Monday’s hometown heroes are recognizing veterans who have gone unnoticed for years. Leaders in the community plan to distribute headstones for unmarked graves, many for veterans of ...
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — Back in the 1930s, Pittsburgh was known as the “mecca” for baseball’s Negro League. We were the only city in the country to have two professional teams — the Crawfords and the ...
Mountview Cemetery received 30, all of them replacements for the headstones destroyed when an SUV traveling down Central Avenue in midtown Billings crashed into the veterans section of the cemetery in ...