On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the flag of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia is flown over the White House, the Capitol, the Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service System Headquarters, the National Vietnam Veterans and Korean War Veterans Memorials, U.S. Military Installations, national cemeteries, and other locations across our country. On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the flag of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia is flown over the White House, the Capitol, the Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service System Headquarters, the National Vietnam Veterans and Korean War Veterans Memorials, U.S. Military Installat...
WASHINGTON - Taps could be silenced for veterans who die during a bird flu outbreak. The Department of Veterans Affairs foresees closing the 120 national cemeteries in a pandemic because of staffing shortages, leaving families the option of delaying burial or seeking interment elsewhere.
Hallowed ground is for heroes IT IS WRONG that Congress has passed a bill allowing some parents to be buried alongside their fallen servicemember-children in military cemeteries. These cemeteries are places to honor the sacrifice of the military member, not a place to bury their extended families. This practice will take up valuable space for our honored military dead.
From Civil War soldiers to modern warriors in the Middle East, fallen soldiers will be honored this weekend with ceremonies ranging from flag displays paying tribute to those buried in military cemeteries to living-history interpretations by people in costume . At Shiloh National Military Park, the tributes begin at 10 a.m. today on the front lawn of Shiloh Visitor Center with costumed historians interpreting wars in which the United States has been involved from the Colonial era to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Bush administration is highlighting the thousands of overseas graves of American war dead as part of a public relations campaign to convince foreigners of the United States' good intentions in its battles with Islamist terrorists. The 24 cemeteries, of which Normandy is the most famous, have drawn millions of visitors and stood for decades as places to commemorate the fallen.
ON THE MORNING of Sept. 11, 2001, with President George W. Bush visiting Florida, I was working from home in Alexandria on some forgotten domestic speech the president never gave. As events unfolded in Manhattan, I left for the White House. Nearing the Pentagon, I saw a plane flying low over the highway - so low I could clearly see the windows. It was only later that I considered the fear behind them. What followed, for my part, was years of words. Words of comfort. Words of resolution. Words in cathedrals and before Congress and at military cemeteries.
The new Southern Maine Memorial Veterans Cemetery was built for those who served in the nation's military, but it is in many ways a monument to Marie Clancy, too. Clancy, 85, sat front and center as the 89-acre cemetery was dedicated Tuesday, joining two other cemeteries in Augusta and another one in Caribou as final resting places for the state's veterans and immediate family members. Outside of Maine, there are 127 state military cemeteries, which are financed primarily by federal grants.
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