MIAMI (AP) — When sites of sacred cultural memory are desecrated, it adds additional trauma to the indignity of being segregated even in death, said the executive director of the African American ...
For more than six decades, descendants and a handful of supporters have fought to preserve Mount Zion and Female Union Band ...
Seven local cemeteries will participate in the state’s third annual “Caring for Your Cemetery Day” April 25 and 26.
Covering two million acres of U.S. soil, cemeteries are lush with potential for the living and the land. Devinne Melecki Some days, it feels like I spend more time with the dead than the living. In ...
Burial in a national cemetery is free to all eligible veterans. Spouses and some dependent children may also be eligible. There are 155 national cemeteries in 42 states and Puerto Rico. Burial ...
WASHINGTON — As an aging generation of Vietnam War veterans dies in increasing numbers, state-run veterans cemeteries are running out of space to accommodate them. The Department of Veterans Affairs ...