Not All Soldiers Are Buried in a National Cemetery
By Gena Philibert-Ortega on May 20, 2024
In this article – to help commemorate Memorial Day next Monday – Gena Philibert-Ortega describes where your veteran ancestor might be buried... (Read More)
Tag: Military Cemeteries
Genealogy 101: Veterans Cemeteries
By Gena Philibert-Ortega on May 25, 2018
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for finding the burial sites of your veteran ancestors... (Read More)
Arlington National Cemetery Removing Mementos Left at Graves
By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 21, 2013
Military cemeteries traditionally have a uniform look: clean, unadorned, orderly. The appearance of the military crosses was immortalized in the lines of the poem “In Flanders Fields,” written by Canadian John McCrae during WWI on 3 May 1915: In Flanders fields the poppies grow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place;... (Read More)
