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2. Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery - Wikipedia

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   In 2008, the city received submissions from 20 countries in a design competition for the memorial, and a design for by C.J. Howard of Alexandria was selected. The cemetery memorial opened in September 2014 and includes a sculpture, The Path of Thorns and Roses by Mario Chiodo, at the center of the park. The names of people buried at the site ...

3. Portsmouth African Burying Ground - Wikipedia

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   The Portsmouth African Burying Ground is a memorial park on Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The memorial park sits on top of an 18th century gravesite containing almost two hundred freed and enslaved African people. [1] It is the only archeologically verified African burying ground for the time period in New England ...

4. American Battle Monuments Commission - Wikipedia

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   Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial France: World War II 1944 1956 (with ABMC) 5,255 424 Details: Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial Belgium: World War I 1937 368 43 Details: Florence American Cemetery and Memorial Italy: World War II 1960 4,402 1,409 Details: Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial Belgium: World War II 1960 ...

5. George Washington family secrets revealed by DNA from ...

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   Researchers excavated five unmarked graves at the cemetery in 1999 in an effort to find Samuel Washington’s resting place. They recovered small bones and teeth from three burials, but DNA ...

6. Wikipedia : WikiProject Military history/Military memorials ...

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   This task force covers all military memorials, monuments, and cemeteries, regardless of the country or conflict to which they relate. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Memorials-task-force=yes or Memorials=y to the {{}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax).

7. United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for ...

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   Arlington National Cemetery has similar restrictions on headstones, though it is maintained by US Department of the Army. The religious symbols are rendered as simple inscriptions without sculptural relief or coloring other than black. The emblem of belief is an optional feature. [1]

8. List of memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic - Wikipedia

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   40-foot high granite Preservation of the Union Monument (1892), in Bath National Cemetery. Memorial in Nondaga Cemetery, erected by Custer Post 81 in 1916 in observance of Memorial Day. Buffalo: Soldiers and Sailors Monument dedicated in Lafayette Square in 1884. By 1889, the monument began to list and was reconstructed. [67] New York City:

9. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington National Cemetery)

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   An Army caisson carried the Vietnam Unknown from the Capitol to the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, May 28, 1984. President Reagan presided over the funeral, presented the Medal of Honor to the Vietnam Unknown, and acted as next of kin by accepting the interment flag at the end of the ceremony.