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New Jersey Receives Grant to Expand Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery (10/05/2022)
Indiana Receives Grant to Expand Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery (10/04/2022)
Wisconsin Receives Grant to Expand Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery (10/04/2022)
Nevada Receives Grant to Expand Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery (9/30/2022)
Arizona Receives Grant to Expand Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Marana (9/30/2022)
Arizona Receives Grant to Expand Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Camp Navajo (9/30/2022)
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NCA historians blog about current events, cemeteries, preservation projects, headstones and monuments, Memorial Day, notable persons and much more.
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Dayton's "Underground Path of Death"
By Sara Amy Leach, Senior Historian, NCA
The funeral tunnel at Dayton is a unique VA historic resource that has been documented and evaluated by engineers and historic preservationists using non-invasive ground-penetrating radar, digital photogrammetry, and low-light photography, among other techniques. Continue reading this blog post.
Postcard showing the gated entrance to the 300-foot-long tunnel at the Central Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio. From the hospital morgue, deceased residents were placed in a casket and transported through the tunnel to the cemetery grounds for a funeral service at the church and then burial. (Dayton National Cemetery Support Committee)
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