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 ...
Two Civil War veterans were given proper headstones on Wednesday, decades after their deaths. The Daily Republic reports that more than 30 people attended the event at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. Douglas ...
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 ...
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 ...
U.S. military veterans who have been laid to rest in cemeteries across Kern County number in the tens of thousands. More than 500 of those graves — and likely hundreds more — have never been graced by ...
POCATELLO — There are 99 Spanish-American War and Civil War veterans buried in Pocatello’s Mountain View Cemetery, but there’s a “forgotten” group that will no longer go unrecognized, if Jacquee ...
(CBS)-- More than a dozen forgotten graves of Civil War veterans will be getting headstones at a cemetery in Oswego - after a yearlong effort by the Sons of Union Veterans, reports WBBM's Steve Miller ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Community volunteers, including those from the Davenport City Cemetery Partnership and the Excelon Militaries Actively Connected Quad Cities Chapter, installed foundations and ...
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 ...