United States National Cemetery
United States National Cemetery ( National Cemetery of the United States) is the designation for 139 nationally important cemeteries in the United States of America. National Cemeteries are generally, but not always, military cemeteries. They contain the graves of U.S. military personnel, veterans and their spouses and unmarried children. Besides these, there are special State Veteran Cemeteries. Some National Cemeteries, especially Arlington National Cemetery ( Arlington National Cemetery ) south of the federal capital, Washington DC, contain tombs of important civilian leaders and other important personalities. On some, the Confederate soldiers are buried in their own departments.
The National Cemetery Administration of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) manages and maintains 125 of the 139 national cemeteries. The Department of the Army maintains two, the Arlington National Cemetery and United States Soldiers' and Airmen 's Home National Cemetery. The National Park Service (NPS ) maintains 14 cemeteries at historic sites and battlefields.
In addition, care overseas by the American Battle Monuments Commission 24 American military cemeteries. U.S. military cemeteries abroad, for example, the World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville -sur -Mer in Normandy, France (for the U.S. soldiers who died during Operation Overlord, June 8, 1944 by the 1. U.S. Army was the first American cemetery on European ground applied ) and the World War II Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial, which is near Saint- James for the fallen in Brittany emerged (For the two systems, see under memory of the operation Overlord ). About 5,000 fallen U.S. soldiers are in Luxembourg, about 2.5 km south-west of the international airport Findel buried in the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial.
Since the Second World War fallen U.S. soldiers abroad are converted back as possible in the United States and, depending on the wishes of family members, buried either in their home or on one of the national cemeteries.