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The Military Women's Memorial is located on a 4.2 acres (17,000 m 2) [147] site at the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery (although it is technically on National Park Service land). The main approach to the memorial is from Memorial Avenue.
It depicts three uniformed women with a wounded male soldier to symbolize the support and caregiving roles that women played in the war as nurses and other specialists. It is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., a short distance south of the Wall and north of the Reflecting Pool. The ...
An aerial view of Arlington National Cemetery's east entrance and the cemetery's Women's Military Memorial in August 2013. Arlington National Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the United States National Cemetery System, one of two maintained by the United States Army.
Amanda Ray (left) and Jason Ray (right) of Double Negative Photography use medium-format photography to archive Mississippi history in cemeteries, military parks and historic buildings around the ...
The Arlington Ladies are a group of women who attend the funeral of every member of the United States armed forces who is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The group also includes one man who is known as the Arlington Gentleman. [1] An Arlington Lady being escorted to a grave on May 6, 2008
Apr. 27—BERLIN — A small, but dedicated, group of women have launched their own personal campaign to preserve what little is left of a small unmarked cemetery in Berlin and to give the dozens ...
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] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been established. [2]
More than 200,000 American heroes lie in their final resting places at the 26 overseas American military cemeteries that commemorate their sacrifice. Marble headstones in the shape of Latin ...