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  • They Served: The ‘Hello Girls’ of WWI and their sixty-year battle for recognition

    They Served: The ‘Hello Girls’ of WWI and their sixty-year battle for recognition

    The Hello Girls were female telephone operators during WWI. This is their 60-year battle for federal recognition of their wartime contribution.

  • WWII75: A tragedy of two B-17s over Berlin

    WWII75: A tragedy of two B-17s over Berlin

    John Clark, Robert James, Willard Johnson, Paul Young.  These are [...]

  • Cemetery Monuments Embody Service, Sacrifice

    Cemetery Monuments Embody Service, Sacrifice

    There are more than 1,330 monuments in NCA cemeteries. They take many shapes and sizes to honor the service and sacrifice of servicemen and women

  • May is for Memorial Day … and Mowing

    May is for Memorial Day … and Mowing

    May is the busiest month for NCA as it mows, trims, waters, and fertilize thousands of acres of grass to ready its 136 cemeteries for Memorial Day events.

  • Resuscitating Dayton National Cemetery’s ‘Tunnel of Death’

    Resuscitating Dayton National Cemetery’s ‘Tunnel of Death’

    The team responsible for studying the historic tunnel presented its findings and alternatives to DNCSC and NCA as the first step toward rehabilitation.

  • Erastus Milo Cravath – Preacher, Educator, Veteran

    Erastus Milo Cravath – Preacher, Educator, Veteran

    Erastus Cravath was such a man.  Born in 1833 in Homer, New York, to White parents who were ardent abolitionists, Cravath grew up helping escaping slaves.

  • 97 years ago: New government headstone for World War Veterans

    97 years ago: New government headstone for World War Veterans

    On April 26, 1922, a board of officers adopted a new headstone design for all graves except for those of the Civil War and Spanish-American War.

  • Veterans Legacy Program: 1st Lt. Terence P. Halligan, World War II Navigator Missing in Action

    Veterans Legacy Program: 1st Lt. Terence P. Halligan, World War II Navigator Missing in Action

    1st Lt. Terence Patrick Halligan served as a navigator aboard [...]

  • Veterans Legacy Program: Sfc. Gil Ramos-Rivera, from Puerto Rico to Korea to Vietnam

    Veterans Legacy Program: Sfc. Gil Ramos-Rivera, from Puerto Rico to Korea to Vietnam

    Sfc. Gil Ramos-Rivera was born and raised in Puerto Rico [...]

  • The Yeoman (F) Program and the Legacy of Women Veterans

    The Yeoman (F) Program and the Legacy of Women Veterans

     The Yeoman (F)s, popularly called ‘Yeomanettes’ to their objection, [...]

  • Veterans Legacy Program: Cpl. Earl LaPan, South Florida artist and World War II Veteran

    Veterans Legacy Program: Cpl. Earl LaPan, South Florida artist and World War II Veteran

    Cpl. Earl LaPan, a World War II U.S. Army Air [...]

  • Veterans Legacy Program: Maj. Charles Leonetti, Italian immigrant, Veteran of both World Wars, and well-known New York artist

    Veterans Legacy Program: Maj. Charles Leonetti, Italian immigrant, Veteran of both World Wars, and well-known New York artist

    Maj. Charles Leonetti immigrated to the United States from Italy [...]

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