Memorials and monuments come in different shapes and sizes, but their messages are similar, said Richard Ryba, commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 11355 in Council Bluffs.
In fact, Bischof said that she found more memorials for WWI than for the Civil War. "Civil War monuments are so visible in a way that the World War I memorials aren't," Bischof said. She noted the ...
One fact that marks the Lowland Scottish Headstone as unique is that the Headstone took almost a century to penetrate into the highlands, where the older slab and table grave markers were still being ...
One of the most moving war memorials, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial – or "the Wall," as it's commonly referred to – is a long black granite wall with the names of more than 58,000 Americans ...
When Debra and Mark Roman bought a house in Rockport more than a decade ago, she found something most unlikely after the closing — a 1774 gravestone from Gloucester, in six pieces, left on the ...