national cemeteries
Federal burial grounds
National cemeteries are burial grounds established and maintained by a government for military personnel, veterans, and sometimes their dependents.
In the United States, the term usually refers to cemeteries administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs or the National Park Service, including Arlington National Cemetery: He was buried with full military honors at a national cemetery.
- tombstonesMemorial stones over graves
- service membersMilitary organization employees
- eternal flameContinuously burning memorial light
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
- federal oversightGovernment supervision of activities
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- cemeteriesgraves, grave, burial, headstones, headstone
- Civil War aftermath13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, freedmen, Reconstruction, sharecropping
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