The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: philw on August 29, 2011, 03:27:26 AM
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2090594,00.html
Very cool way of documenting
Wonder if they will also include the GPS data for families to locate the graves as well.
I could not believe the stats on the place. 27 services a day.
Amazing still and I hope this helps preserve the memory's of everyone there.
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The last time I was at there it was a beautiful place and God bless the ones resting there.
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It is way behind the times as far as the record keeping goes.
When my mom was interned with my father there a few years ago, we went to try and find my Uncle Mac’s grave. You would think you would give them a name and they would pull it up on a computer.
They still used microfilm. We had to give them the year he was buried and they sorted through the records. I went to the funeral when I was in college so guessed 1975 and I was right. They found the plot and we went to see the grave site. I remembered the tree that was by the headstone.
National Geographic did a great special on the cemetery and the Old Guard. It’s well worth the money.
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yes, they are using GPS and putting all the pics on the web. GPS so family s can go directly to the grave of the brave patriot who gave his all for the U.S. and US .