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This 1879 photo shows the front gate and newly expanded keeper’s lodge as well as the flag staff at Yorktown National Cemetery. Spurred by the reports filed by Moore and other quartermaster ...
YORKTOWN, Va. - Yorktown National Cemetery holds a special place in Cadence Smeltzer’s heart. “My dad is in the military and he has been serving for 20 years,” said Smeltzer. My great ...
YORK COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — An 11-year-old’s heartfelt wish to make sure every veteran laid to rest in Yorktown National Cemetery has a wreath for the holidays will come true this season.
Four years later, Yorktown National Cemetery Superintendent John W. Shaw erected a modest brick and concrete obelisk less than a mile away, only to have his location contested and his monument ...
RICHMOND, Va. — The remains of six Civil War soldiers, unearthed when Hurricane Isabel struck Virginia last year, were reburied Sunday at Yorktown National Cemetery. The Union soldiers were ...
For people placing flags at Hampton National Cemetery, it means something more ... this for probably 16 years," said Dale Abrahamson, of Yorktown. "My father was in WWII and so I kind of do ...