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The National Cemetery Administration is launching an online memorial site to honor the 3.7 million veterans who are interred in Department of Veterans Affairs national cemeteries. Each veteran will have his or her own page on The Veterans Legacy Memorial site.
For now, each veteran’s information will have certain basic details, such as where they are buried and in which branch they served. As time goes on, we (family and fellow veterans) will be able to add photos and text to our veteran’s memorial page.
Not all locations of veteran burials will be included, however. Arlington National Cemetery, for example, has its own website (www.arlingtoncemetery.mil). It suggests you download the new app, ANC Explorer, and do your search on your phone. If you’re at your computer, put “find a grave” in the search box. You’ll end up at a Find a Gravesite page for Arlington. Put in the veteran’s name and other information; you don’t need to fill in all the blanks. You’ll be shown a Google map with the grave’s location. Click on the star to see a photo of the headstone.
The ANC Explorer app on your phone would come in handy addition if you’re visiting Arlington. It will highlight points of interest, send you on self-guided tours and show front and back photos of headstones. Find it on the App Store or Google Play.
If you have questions about the Veterans Legacy Memorial, go online to www.vlm.cem.va.gov/faq/ and scroll down the questions. Check for links to other databases covering veterans interred in private cemeteries and others.
Don’t worry if you can’t find your veteran – the project is just getting started. At this point I was able to find only my grandfather.
My opinion? They announced this project too early. A better grave locator is the old one, gravelocator.cem.va.gov/index.html.
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