Just in time to honor the men and women who have served in the U.S. military on Veterans Day Nov. 11, the National Park Service and National Cemetery Association have added more than 20,000 veteran profiles to the Veterans Legacy Memorial website.
The new profile pages memorialize 18,752 veterans and service members interred at Andersonville National Cemetery in Andersonville, Georgia and 1,822 interred at Andrew Johnson National Cemetery in Greeneville, Tennessee. The pages can now be accessed by family, friends, and the public interested in memorializing these veterans and sharing lasting memories, tributes, photographs, biographies, and other information to honor their service to the nation.
They join the nearly 4.5 million profiles already featured on the site memorializing veterans who rest in VA-managed national cemeteries and VA-funded state, territorial, and Tribal Veterans’ cemeteries.
“The National Park Service is honored to collaborate with the National Cemetery Administration to share the stories and legacies of our nation’s veterans interred in our national cemeteries with the public,” says NPS Director Chuck Sams. “The VLM is another way we can honor, preserve, and share our history and its many individual stories with future generations.”
Nearly 50,000 submissions have been made to veterans’ profile pages in VLM since the site launched in 2019. All content submitted to VLM is reviewed by NCA moderators before being posted to a veteran’s page to ensure it conforms to the VLM User Policy.
