military cemeteries
Armed forces burial grounds
Military cemeteries are burial grounds specifically designated for members of the armed forces, often maintained by governments with uniform headstones and ceremonial landscaping.
They serve as sites of national remembrance: Arlington National Cemetery honors American service members.
Some contain war dead from specific conflicts; others accept veterans who died in peacetime.
The largest hold hundreds of thousands of graves arranged in solemn rows.
- headstonesBurial site monuments
- cenotaphsMonuments for unrecovered dead
- war gravesBurial sites for combatants
- poppyScarlet bloom, opium source
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
remembrance ceremonies · eternal flames · sacred ground · Verdun · Armistice Day · last post · honor guard · cross · inscriptions · commemorative plaques · landscaped gardens · ossuaries · marble · Western Front · wreaths · epitaphs · rest in peace · flag
- war memorialswar memorial, war monuments, war memorials, veterans memorials, memorial wall
- war tourismbattlefield tours, war museums, war memorials, D-Day beaches, Normandy
- cemeteriescemetery, graves, grave, burial, headstones
- Military Sitesforts, fortresses, naval stations, air force bases, bunkers
- ArdennesBastogne, dense forests, rolling hills, Battle of the Bulge, dense forest
- War Veteransveterans, disabled veterans, wounded soldiers, wounded warriors, war wounded
military cemeterieschurchyards
Burial plots beside chapels
peace gardens · memorial gardens · pet cemeteries · columbaria · mausoleums
military cemeteriesmilitary bases
Armed forces installations
boot camps · military academies · training grounds · barracks · recruitment centers
military cemeteriespeace memorials
Structures commemorating conflict's end