From Military.com:
“Millions of Veterans to Be
Memorialized Online in VA Legacy Project”
The Department of Veterans
Affairs earlier this month launched the Veterans Legacy Memorial project, aimed
at memorializing online forever the more than 3.7 million veterans interred at
the 136 national cemeteries run by the VA's National Cemetery Administration. The
project will begin with the basics on each veteran's memorial page -- name,
dates of birth and death, dates of service and other information usually
included on a headstone, according to a VA news release Monday. No final
decisions have been made, but the future capabilities of the memorial project
may include the opportunity for families, survivors and other veterans to add
photos and share memories of the deceased veteran on the memorial page. In the
future, veterans buried in private cemeteries with headstones provided by the
VA may also be added to the online memorial, officials said in the release. "Veterans
Legacy Memorial ensures 'no Veteran ever dies' by honoring the legacy of our
nation's Veterans, not just in our cemeteries, but in a new and innovative
digital setting," VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a statement. "It
enhances the onsite national cemetery experience and extends the experience to
those who otherwise are unable to physically visit the cemetery." The
National Cemetery Administration, working with the VA's Office of Information
and Technology, built the architecture for the site, starting with the
information contained on every veteran's headstone. The initial phase of the
memorial project will allow the public to search the site for veterans, find
out where they are buried and read the basic details of their lives and
service, the VA said. The Veterans Legacy Memorial will cover only the 136
cemeteries administered by the National Cemetery Administration and does not
include national cemeteries run by the military, such as Arlington National
Cemetery, which is administered by the Army, or overseas cemeteries managed by the
American Battle Monuments Commission.
^ The VA’s National Cemetery Administration
already allows you to find a veteran and their spouse that have died and are
buried in a National Cemetery on their website. It includes their name, birth
and death dates and a short summary of their military career (or in the case of
a spouse: the military career of their loved one.) I guess this planned Legacy
Project will be slightly different in that it will have actual picture of the
headstone – although this article doesn’t specifically say that. I think there
should be a digital and accessible website that has the names (with a picture
of their headstone and maybe a picture of the deceased) and birth/death dates
and what they did in the Military for all veterans that are in a National
Cemetery or received a headstone from the NCA and are not buried in a National
Cemetery. I would also like to see a digital website that has the same for
every veteran (living and dead.) That would be a much harder and bigger
project. ^
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