From Military.com:
“Veterans online registry adds 300K more names ahead of
Memorial Day”
Ahead of Memorial Day remembrances, Department of Veterans
Affairs officials have added 300,000 new names to their online registry of
deceased veterans and service members interred at national cemeteries across
the country.
The four-year-old Veterans Legacy Memorial project is
designed to allow the American public to learn about individuals who served in
the military even when they can’t physically visit their final resting sites.
It also gives family and friends another way to carry on their memory, through
online stories and tributes.
The addition of the new names — from 27 cemeteries managed by
the Defense Department, separate from the VA cemetery system — brings the total
number featured in the project to nearly five million. The online registry
includes the basic military service records of the deceased, the location of
their final resting place and directions on how to visit. Family members can
also submit photos, award citations and other historic documents to be included
in the listings.
The new group includes tens of thousands of individuals
interred at Arlington National Cemetery, one of the most well-known military
memorial sites in the nation. Although many veterans are buried there, the site
is managed by Army officials, not the Department of Veterans Affairs. “The
Veterans Legacy Memorial gives all of us a way to remember veterans and thank
them for their service and contributions to our nation, even when we can’t
visit their gravesite,” Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs Matt Quinn said in
a statement. “Expanding [the project] to include veterans and service members
in [Defense Department] cemeteries is just the next step in achieving our goal
of giving every veteran a digital memorial space.”
^ This is a great resource for Families and Veterans to find
their Loved Ones. ^
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