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The U.S. Air Force Academy cemetery was established in 1958. It accepts burials for graduates of the Air Force Academy, personnel assigned to the Academy, USAF officers in the rank of Lieutenant General and above, recipients of the Air Force Cross or Medal of Honor, along with their spouses and dependent children.
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]
Evergreen Cemetery is the city-maintained cemetery for Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Colorado.. When Colorado Springs was founded in 1871 there were already two cemeteries serving El Paso County but both were quickly found to be inadequate in serving the needs of the rapidly growing city.
This list of cemeteries in Colorado includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Fairview Cemetery, Colorado Springs; Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver; Fort Lyon National Cemetery, Las Animas; Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins; Mount Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge; Pikes Peak National Cemetery, Colorado Springs; Riverside Cemetery, Denver; Silver Cliff Cemetery; Tower of Memories, Wheat Ridge; United States Air Force ...
Oct. 16—EVENTS TUESDAY Homeless Veterans Coalition Stand Down Event — With services for homeless vets and their pets, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., City Auditorium, 331 E. Kiowa St ...
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 ]
Crawford died at age 81 on March 15, 2000, in his residence at Palmer Lake. Upon his death Governor Bill Owens authorized all Colorado flags to be lowered to half staff in his honor. He is buried at the United States Air Force Academy Cemetery in Colorado Springs. He is the only US Army enlisted person buried there. [3]