Last week, I wrote a column about visiting the grave of Gloria Williams on the two-year anniversary of her death. She was like a sister to Roberta and me. I asked readers for their thoughts about ...

The first all-female Buffalo-Niagara Honor Flight carried 35 women who served in either the Korean, Vietnam or Cold wars.

Culinary epitaphs offer a point of connection to the deceased’s descendants and anyone else who comes across them ...

As the government shutdown brings a major portion of Northern Virginia’s economy to a halt, the commonwealth’s senators are doubling down on demands to strike a deal. After months of upheaval, ...

An Alabama man known for providing free lawn care to those in need, and teaching today’s youth to do the same, is hoping to mow the Arlington National Cemetery as a way to honor the veterans who rest ...

Arlington National Cemetery goes back to the Revolution. Four million people visit it each year. A few years ago, there was a scandal involving unmarked or mismarked graves, and urns unearthed and ...

We need burial space equivalent to the size of Philadelphia to accommodate our dead. We don't have it. What now?

Re “National Parks Feel the Stress of Trump’s Cuts” (news article, Aug. 30): In August I visited four parks with my daughter on a cross-country trip: Zion, Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Badlands. It ...

Volunteers clean headstones at nearly 70 national cemeteries across the U.S. on Sept. 11. A volunteer has traveled from Greenup to help clean at Camp Butler National Cemetery for the past few years.

I was happy to hear the news that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is returning the iconic Reconciliation Monument to Arlington National Cemetery. It was wrong to take it down in the first place, ...

A statue commemorating the Confederacy, which was removed from Arlington National Cemetery less than two years ago, will cost taxpayers $10 million to be restored, according to a U.S. Army official.

The refurbishment of a Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery will cost around $10 million over a roughly two-year period, according to an Army official. The monument, which was taken ...