As millions of Americans take time this Memorial Day to remember the fallen, some veterans and family members are upset over a throwback to tradition in the appearance of national cemetery headstones.
Originally, “tombstone” was “adapted by the English language in the mid-1500s and was used to describe the lid of a stone ...
Arlington, Va. – Unlike in earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the Pentagon ...
A woman’s headstone is going viral for its unique engraving: her fudge recipe. Kathryn Andrews and her husband Wade are buried at Logan Cemetery in Logan, Utah. Like typical headstones, theirs has ...
DALTON, Ga. – Take a walk through the West Hill Cemetery in northwest Georgia and you’ll find towering monuments and carefully etched granite, dating back to the Civil War. The cemetery sexton calls ...
LOGAN, Utah — Some people take special recipes to their graves. Others like to share. A Utah man loved his wife’s fudge recipe to death, so it is only fitting that their headstone is adorned with the ...
Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie has refused to remove three headstones engraved with swastikas at the graves of German prisoners of war in national cemeteries in San Antonio and Utah, ...