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.
Something strange was going on in Section 17 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Gail Nicklason noticed the letters on her mother's marble headstone were starting to fade. But the black letters on her ...
In January 1918, while still in his early 30s, MacDonald "Max" Gill was chosen to design the alphabet used on the headstones and memorials of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), intended to ...
In August of 1868, a 45-year-old potter named Stephen Carroll Loyd was buried in Ballard Freewill Cemetery in Hamilton, Ala. His grave was marked with an unusual headstone - it was made of glazed ...
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