United States National Cemetery System

No, it's a big arch building.

to block the view, I believe, of the National Cemetery there.

I guess the plans, people were expecting the drones on it.

and they were inspecting all these facilities.

It was a fitting day for a funeral.

Gray skies and rain clouds saturated Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery's grounds Tuesday.

Dozens gathered in the dampness to hold a military funeral 250 years after the fact for soldiers who died as the gunboat Philadelphia sunk to the bottom of Lake Champlain.

Led by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold, the hundreds of officers and soldiers under his command crewed 15 vessels for the purpose of defending Lake Champlain as best they could against inevitable British attack from Canada.

It's a dilemma for me, Ryan.

I can be buried in Annisfield National Cemetery up there, which is like 12 miles from me, you know.

Oink.

Going to be buried in Alabama.

It's Tuesday, October 13th.

On this day in 1873, 107 acres were set aside for the McPherson National Cemetery in present day Lincoln County.

The cemetery is connected to Fort McPherson, which played an active role in the Indian Wars.

Buried at the National Cemetery are veterans from some of the bloodiest Indian wars in the nation's history.

Arrangements entrusted to Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home, Davenport.

Funeral services and celebration of life will take place at 11:00 AM on Friday, October 16th, 2026 at Our Lady of Victory Church, Davenport, with in- interment at the National Cemetery, Rock Island Arsenal.

Visitation will be from 10:00 AM until time of services.

Luncheon to follow at the parish center after committal services.

The event here chronicled is commemorated by the erection on the spot of a granite pavilion which is appropriately named Providence Spring.

The inscriptions are as follows: This fountain erected by the National Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War in memory of the fifty-two thousand three hundred forty-five comrades who were confined here as prisoners of war and of the thirteen thousand nine hundred comrades buried in the adjoining National Cemetery.

Dedicated Memorial Day, May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and one.

James Atwell, National Commander.

In March it was my privilege, in company with Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Winans, and Mrs. Kate E. Jones, to visit Prison Park at Andersonville.

As I walked through the grounds and read and pondered on the suffering there endured, it seemed indeed a hallowed spot.

Just beyond is the National Cemetery, in whose broad trenches are interred more soldiers in one group than upon any battlefield on the face of the globe.

A whole army perished rather than deny the country which gave them birth.

Makes sense.

And alongside that, you have H.R. 7260, which is the National Cemetery Administration Annual Report Act.

Which also mandates very detailed annual reporting, but for a totally different sector of the VA.

Right.

But through the years, the Navy has tried to identify as many unknowns as possible, and the most recent effort to use modern DNA positively identified Adkins.

On Thursday, his family will attend his burial at the National Cemetery in Honolulu with full military honors.

I'm Chris Lawrence, wbmetronews.com.

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Air crews that serve together, um, and that go down together and that today are buried together.

Uh, and, and maybe to finish this up, this thought, in Arlington Cemetery, the National Cemetery, there is a cross of sacrifice there to those Americans who have served in the Canadian Armed Forces in the First World War, the Second War, and the Korean War, and it's a powerful place.

Wow.

It's a powerful place to remind our American friends, um, just of, uh, the cost, uh, and the price of, of fighting for what we believe in, which has often been the same thing and which unites us.

And so he was having a military burial.

So we had to get him into the National Cemetery in Lodi, Ohio.

So that was all of a process as well.

Yeah.