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Contact: Gia Wagner, 229-924-0343 x201
National Park Service, National Cemetery Administration honor more than 20,000 Veterans with profiles on virtual memorial site
ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia – The National Park Service and the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration (NCA) have added profiles for 20,574 veterans and service members interred in two NPS national cemeteries to the NCA’s Veterans Legacy Memorial (VLM) website. The NPS is the first federal agency to join forces with the NCA on expanding this important online memorial.
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,” said 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.”
“The National Cemetery Administration is proud to partner with the National Park Service in honoring the Veterans and service members interred in the NPS national cemeteries,” said Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs Matthew Quinn. “As VLM grows, we look forward to the day when all Veterans can be memorialized online, regardless of where they are laid to rest.”
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.
Andersonville National Historic Site and National Cemetery are located 10 miles south of Oglethorpe, GA and 10 miles northeast of Americus, GA on Georgia Highway 49. The national park site features the National Prisoner of War Museum, Andersonville National Cemetery and the site of the historic Civil War prison, Camp Sumter. Andersonville National Historic Site is the only national park within the National Park System to serve as a memorial to all American prisoners of war. Park grounds are open from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. with the museum open from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information on the park, call 229 924-0343, visit on the web at www.nps.gov/ande/, or find us on Facebook at facebook.com/AndersonvilleNPS
About the National Park Service. More than 20,000 National Park Service employees care for America’s 401 national parks and work with communities across the nation to help preserve local history and create close-to-home recreational opportunities. Learn more at www.nps.gov.
Last updated: October 20, 2022