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Military Cemeteries and Memorials

Rows of white gravestones in solemn settings, honoring fallen soldiers at national cemeteries, evoking remembrance and respect.

Headstones at the Bretteville-surLaize Canadian war Cemetery in France
Headstones at the Bretteville-surLaize Canadian war Cemetery in France
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War graves in the War Martyrs Cemetery in Ia Grai, Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.The graves mainly contain the remains of local ethnic minority men who dies in the Vietnam War against the US in the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as soldiers who died fighting the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1980s.war cemeteries can be found all over Vietnam following various wars in the second half of the 20th century.
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Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery, Keren, Eritrea, Africa
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan walking through Omaha Beach Cemetery during 40th anniversary of D-Day Landings, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, President Ronald Reagan White House Photographic Office, June 6, 1984
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Grave of R.W. Whipple, USMC, in the 4th Division Cemetery, with a personal monument. Iwo Jima, 1945.
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Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Dec. 7th, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, wreaths line the USS ARIZONA Memorial wall engraved with the names of the battleship's crew who died in the bombing. Base: Pearl Harbor State: Hawaii(HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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England, North Yorkshire, York. Poppy wreaths and crosses on the York City War Memorial in the Memorial Gardens.
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The War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Asia
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Day of Remembrance 2023. Kennedy Space Center workers and guests placed flowers at the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida during the Day of Remembrance on Jan. 26, 2023. The event honored the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of spaceflight. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Columbia tragedy. This years ceremony was hosted by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, which was founded after the shuttle Challenger accident in 1986 to honor the sacrifices of fallen astronauts each year.
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A British military cemetery for those who fell at the Battle of Helpmekaar during the Anglo Boer War1899-1902. kwaZulu-Natal. South Africa
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Netherlands (aka Holland), Arnhem, Oosterbeek. WWII cemetery for the Battle of Arnhem, British, Polish & Canandian forces.
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Some 10,000 wreaths were laid in Section 12 of Arlington National Cemetery, Dec. 13, as part of "Wreaths Across America," an annual event now in its 17th year.
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Military gravestone for Lieutenant Joseph Franklin Linkaker of the Royal Army Garrison Artillery, who died during the First World War.
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Grave crosses near the brandenburger tor Berlin from people try to escape east berlin during war
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Ground Zero, Manhattan, New York City, United States of America, North America
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Washington, DC, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall (Editorial Usage Only)
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Monument to victims of an air attack by German aircraft in Krasnoarmeysk district of Volgograd. Monument to victims of an air attack by German aircraft - civilians Krasnoarmeiskii winter in 1942
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Ground zero. The National 9/11 Memorial at the site of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. New York. USA.
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Columbine High School Shooting
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War graves from the Boer War, on Mt Spionkop, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa
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Former concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau Former Auschwitz Birkenau Copyright concentration camp: xzoonar.com/hgvorndranx 22131791
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German military cemetery, Maleme, Crete, Greece, Europe
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German military cemetery from the First World War, Bad Godesberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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Rose at grave of First World War One soldier at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France, Europe
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Ceramic poppies at the Tower of London commemorating the 100th anniversary of World War One; London, England
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Expedition 34/35 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency pays tribute at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow Nov. 29, 2012 where Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space and other Russian space heroes are interred. The tribute, involving the laying of flowers at the Wall, was part of ceremonial activities that will lead to the launch of Hadfield, NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn and Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko to the International Space Station Dec. 19 in the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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USAF and RAF war memorial 1939-1945, Wattisham airfield, Suffolk, England, UK
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Royal Flying Corps regimental badge on headstone at Cemetery of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for First World War One British soldiers
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120604-N-RI884-910 MIDWAY ATOLL (June 4, 2012) Admiral Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, speaks to more than 100 people, including American World War II veterans, during a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the Midway atoll, approximately 1,500 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii, represents the strategic high water mark and turning point of the Pacific war.
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Against a background of wreaths, flowers, and candles at the Ramstein Air Base West Gate, Brgermeister (Mayor) of Ramstein Village Klaus Layes speaks to his constituents and the press. The mayor and villagers marched to the base as a show of support and empathy for the victims, and those who mourn them, of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers Twin Towers and at the Pentagon. Hijackers deliberately flew civilian airliners into the buildings, killing themselves, the passengers and thousands on the ground, on September 11th. Immediately following the march, as a physical manifestation of their sympathy, they laid the wreaths, flowers, and candles at the West Gate. Base: Ramstein Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE
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Cadets, U.S. Revenue-Cutter Service, Physical Drill. Photographs of Revenue Cutter Service Cadets, Ships and Activities. Department of the Treasury
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Sgt. 1st Class Rocco Covelli and wife Angela's infant son, Joseph, was laid to rest in the American Kindergraves, Kaiserslautern Germany in 1958. Baby Joseph is one of 457 American infants born between 1952 and 1971, who died at birth or shortly after at the U.S. Army hospital at Landstuhl or nearby civilian hospitals. An annual memorial service is held in their honor the Saturday after Mother's Day. Flowers and flags were placed on each gravestone for the May 14, 2022 memorial service.
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Petty Officer 1st Class Beoin Corzatt's headstone is viewed during an interment ceremony held at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Sept. 21, 2022. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and attending family members paid their respects and honored the life of Corzatt, who was assigned to the USS Oklahoma when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft during World War II. Corzatt was accounted for on Dec. 17, 2020, nearly 80 years after the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
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A view of a new memorial to fallen Wisconsin State Patrol troopers is shown Sept. 16, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis., at the Wisconsin State Patrol Academy. The new memorial was dedicated Sept. 9, 2022, by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The academy is a tenant organization at Fort McCoy.
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French military cemetery, Longuyon, Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region, France
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Members assigned to the 139th Airlift Wing, Missouri Air National Guard, cleanup debris and foliage at Mount Mora Cemetery in St. Joseph, Missouri, Nov. 10, 2022. The cemetery is the resting place of the wings founding commander, Col. John B. Logan.