Sentences with phrase «military cemetery»
A "military cemetery" is a place where soldiers who have served in the military are buried after they pass away. Full definition
At the American Military Cemetery in Colleville - sur - Mer, pay your respects to fallen heroes by laying a wreath.
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Teachers wishing to extend their visit to Diksmuide can combine a tour of the museum with a trip to the Trench of Death and German military cemetery at Vladslo; just a short coach ride away.
Where to go, what to see Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery's visitor centre will offer some perspective of the large volume of war casualties, charted on a timeline and exemplified by a line - up of 1,392 poles indented to indicate a daily death toll.
Today the long sandy beach attracts walkers and swimmers, while the American Military Cemetery above it, is the most visited site of World War II in Normandy.
When he paints Remains at the Site of the Old Military Cemetery in the show's two most recent works, every word in the title conveys abandonment but at, of, and the.
A burial service was held at the forecourt of the State House in Accra on June 9, after which he was buried at the Osu Military Cemetery.
We ask all visitors to refrain from such activity,» tweeted the Arlington National Cemetery, a US military cemetery in Virginia.
In July 2010 Prince Charles attended the dedication of the Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery at Fromelles.
You can visit the battlefields and the new military cemetery as well as the museum at the town hall.
Arlington National Cemetary includes 18 drawings by Ewan Gibbs that were produced after photographs taken while visiting the iconic military cemetery.
351 German civilians and servicemen who died during internment (WWI and WWII) are buried in the Tatura German Military Cemetery.
The Lijssenthoek military cemetery has a visitors» centre depicting the work of a field hospital and the medical care available to the wounded.
In this exhibition, the chosen locations of his Texas paintings include a graveyard, (as in two paintings titled Remains at the Site of the Old Military Cemetery, Fort D.A. Russell, No. 1 and No. 2), a local, outdoor dance floor (as in Outdoor Dance Floor, Presidio, TX) and simply the vast, expansive sand hills (as in Presidio: In the Sand Hills Looking East with ATV Tracks & Cell Tower and Presidio: In the Sand Hills Looking East with ATV Tracks & Cell Tower).
As all know, the featured speaker of the day was Edward Everett, the most famous orator of the time, a spellbinder who took two hours to say the many things appropriate to say upon the dedication of a military cemetery.
Lindsey Stone was a carer working with disabled girls when, four years ago, a friend posted on Facebook a joke picture of her standing in front of a sign at a military cemetery that asked for silence and respect.
Otherwise I am unaffiliated and my ashes will go into a military cemetery.
It said he will be buried in the Military Cemetery in Accra.
The Governor stressed that the symbolism of holding the ceremony at the military cemetery is impeccable but bringing it to the parliament is of even greater significance.
We see him practicing his golf swing at an ominously empty driving range at night, driving past the rows of white headstones at a military cemetery, sitting alone in a hotel room imagining his daughters playing in the backyard.
While Saving Private Ryan excels at portraying the randomness of survival on a battlefield, and is easily cinema's greatest and most realistic achievement in depicting the uncompromising horror of war, it's not without its flaws, chief of which is a horribly sentimental coda in which an ageing Ryan — who is bequeathed a responsibility which would rest heavily on anybody's shoulders — visits the military cemetery in which some of his former comrades are buried.
You can also visit the imposing sail training ship that's moored by the Maritime Museum, the military cemetery and a display of the film sets.
There is also a military cemetery close to the citadel.
My parents lie in the Punchbowl, in Hawaii - the military cemetery nearly filled from WWII - and Korea - and Vietnam.
Usually disputes arise in cases of «blended families» or when one member of the family wants a burial in a military cemetery and another relative doesn't.