Between Fort Eisenhower, the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, and all the other resources, Augusta is a very military-friendly city. But it’s missing one thing: A veterans cemetery. About 40 veterans from the area this week jumped on a bus and headed to the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta with the hope of correcting that. A […]
Israeli troops severely damaged a cemetery in southern Gaza earlier this week in what the country’s military indicated was part of a search for hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas in its Oct. 7 terror attack. The cemetery appeared bulldozed-over on Wednesday morning, with tombstones crushed and graves holding human remains exposed in some of […]
For 63-year-old Nanette Hunter, the fight over the Moses Macedonia African cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland, is a personal one. Hunter is a direct descendant of people interred in the Maryland cemetery, a burial site used for formerly enslaved people. The site itself is buried by an apartment complex and parking lot and is embroiled in […]
The Maryland supreme court heard arguments on Monday from a group of organizers attempting to halt the sale of a local apartment complex that sits on top of a historic African American burial ground. Members of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC) packed the court in Annapolis on Monday, where justices heard testimony about the […]
New Hampshire State Police are investigating a case of ‘criminal mischief’ after damage was found at a cemetery in Croydon. Troopers said they found numerous ruts and tire tracks in the grass at Croydon Flat Cemetery on Camel Hump Road over the weekend. Police said it appears an unknown number of vehicles drove through the […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge on Tuesday allowed the Arlington National Cemetery to remove a century-old Confederate memorial one day after blocking the removal over a report that gravesites were disturbed. At a hearing in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston said he issued the temporary injunction Monday after receiving […]
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. A group called Defend Arlington, affiliated with a group called Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a lawsuit Sunday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, seeking the restraining order. […]
ARLINGTON, Va. — A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday. The decision ignores a recent demand from more than 40 Republican congressmen that the Pentagon […]
SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of San Diegans gathered at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in Point Loma Saturday to remember and honor the fallen by placing holiday wreaths at the gravesites of those who served the country. In Point Loma, 8,000 wreaths were placed thanks to Wreaths Across America, a nonprofit founded to continue and expand […]
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday. The decision ignores a recent demand from more than 40 Republican congressmen that the […]