“Here rests in honored glory, a comrade in arms known but to God.”
A number of white marble headstones for unknown service members at American Battle Monuments Commission sites now sit over empty graves thanks to efforts by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to identify those formerly interred there.
So far in 2025, 70 disinterments have been conducted at Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines, which has more than 3,600 unknown graves. More are scheduled for this year at ABMC sites in Europe. An unknown burial may contain a single bone or fragment, or a set of remains belonging to one or more individuals due to the conditions of their loss and recovery.
A recent identification, U.S. Army Maj. James J....
04.01.2025 | ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, US |
Story by Anna Morelock
Approximately 3,000 people, including seven WWII veterans, gathered Sept. 12 at Netherlands American Cemetery for the Liberation Concert to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of South Limburg.
On June 6, 2024, we will remember the stories and sacrifices of those who participated in the Allied landings in Normandy. Join us via live stream from the Normandy American Cemetery as we remember those who never left the beaches of Normandy.
