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East Lawn Cemetery and Sherman Burbank Memorial Chapel is a historic cemetery and chapel at 605 Main Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.Established in 1842, it is the newest and largest cemetery in Williamstown; the two older cemeteries date to the 18th century.
For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle.
Hundreds of people gathered at the graveside of World War II veteran Stephen Kolesnik Jr. on Dec. 10, 2024 at New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, New Hampshire.
Originally, the position was Chief Memorial Affairs Director and then director of the National Cemetery System. [ 9 ] Public Law 105-368 (November 11, 1998) changed the National Cemetery System, headed by a Director, to the National Cemetery Administration, headed by the Under Secretary of Memorial Affairs.
Connecticut Veterans Affairs Commissioner Thomas J. Saadi read the names Friday of eight men who served in World War I through Vietnam and were either forgotten by their families or died alone ...
Williamstown Cemetery was established in 1858 and the first burial was of Captain Lawrence Lawson, a Master Mariner. [1] In March 2010, the Fawkner Memorial Park Trust was amalgamated with 7 other Trusts and formed the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) which now manages the Williamstown Cemetery and 18 other sites. [2]
Part of the crowd at the 2023 Veterans Day ceremony at the Allied Veterans Cemetery on Nov. 11, 2023. Major Kevin Jones was the guest speaker at Saturday's ceremony.
The creation of the cemetery arose from a 1965 need when at that time the only two federal veterans' cemeteries in the state were full. [3] The cemetery opened as New Jersey's first state-operated veterans' cemetery, serving as "a lasting memorial to those men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our country's honor and freedom."