May 23 (UPI) — This Memorial Day weekend, it will be less difficult than before to honor many of those who died while in the military, thanks to a new virtual effort through the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs. U. S.
The online page was created in 2019 and has gained more than 55,000 requests from veteran pages since then.
“Each of those 300,000 veterans will now have individual pages on VLM where family, friends and others can post tributes, upload photographs and share their veterans’ accomplishments and biographical information, as well as old documents,” the VA said in a statement this week. Last addition of names.
The assignment combines military service and cemetery data, and allows users to search for veterans express by name. In addition, it presents the locations of the graves of many veterans, as well as the precise coordinates of the map. Some even have images of tombs.
The memorial is the first platform in the country to digitize tributes to deceased U. S. service members.
Most of the names added are from Arlington National Cemetery.
This is where an army wreath will be laid at the iconic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Arlington National Cemetery lives on what was once a property of General Robert E. ‘s circle of relatives. Lee, who abandoned the property when the Civil War began. During this conflict, the property became a Union army camp.
Arlington has been used as an army cemetery since 1864 and is the resting place of some 400,000 people, in addition to U. S. presidents. U. S. Howard Taft and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
On a weekday, Arlington hosts between 27 and 30 army funerals.
About 3 million people stop over in the year of the cemetery.