The "American Battles Monuments Commission"
The American Battles Monuments Commission" has the prime object to maintain the cemeteries containing the graves of American soldiers.
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The American Battle Monuments Commission The prime object of the United States war graves service, set up by Federal decision in 1923, is to maintain the cemeteries containing the graves of the 131,593 men and women who died during various conflicts, in foreign lands and on national soil. Its secondary task is to set up and care for memorials, plaques and monuments. Each dead person, identified or unknown, is commemorated individually with a white marble Christian cross or Jewish stone; the names of those who have no known grave or who are recorded as "missing" are carved on the inside walls of the oecumenical chapel inside the cemetery. |
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