Something strange was going on in Section 17 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Gail Nicklason noticed the letters on her mother's marble headstone were starting to fade. But the black letters on her ...
As millions of Americans take time this Memorial Day to remember the fallen, some veterans and family members are upset over a throwback to tradition in the appearance of national cemetery headstones.
In January 1918, while still in his early 30s, MacDonald "Max" Gill was chosen to design the alphabet used on the headstones and memorials of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), intended to ...
The riddle of how headstone came to be mysteriously restored has been solved. David Jackson was left scratching his head when he visited Capel Pendref in Denbigh to find some lettering on his ...
Ruth S. Sibley was born in 1921 and died in 2015. Last week, she received her final memorial. It took Colby Burnett 20 minutes of work and 30 years of experience to engrave a date on Sibley’s ...