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Pikes Peak National Cemetery is a 374-acre (151-hectare) Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) national cemetery located in El Paso County, Colorado. The cemetery serves the burial needs of veterans, their spouses and eligible family members. When fully developed, the cemetery will have 95,000 graves and columbarian niches. [1] [2]
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 military cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War , in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [ 1 ]
Pikes Peak National Cemetery in El Paso County. Crystal Valley Cemetery, Manitou Springs; NRHP-listed; Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs; Fairview Cemetery, Colorado Springs; Pikes Peak National Cemetery, near Colorado Springs; United States Air Force Academy Cemetery, Colorado Springs; NRHP-listed
A remarkable photograph of an American bald eagle perched atop of a veteran's gravestone went viral on Memorial Day, and reminded the nation the true reason for the national holiday.Sunday evening ...
Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery; ... Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park; G. ... Pikes Peak National Cemetery;
Der Stadt Friedhof, Fredericksburg – pioneer cemetery; Founders Memorial Cemetery, Houston – oldest cemetery in Houston; Jackson Ranch Church Cemetery and Eli Jackson Cemetery, Hidalgo County, Texas [7] Olivewood Cemetery, Houston – the city's earliest African-American cemetery, founded around 1870; Texas State Cemetery, Austin
In 1944, the Navy placed the remains in 52 coffins and buried them in a military cemetery in Honolulu. The battleship USS Oklahoma, right, lays capsized alongside the USS Maryland following Japan ...
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a United States Space Force installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to the city of Colorado Springs, [2] at the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, [a] which hosts the activities of several tenant units.