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43%  
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  • Veterans events ahead in Sierra Vista

    06/08/2008 1:12:04 PM PDT · by SandRat · 2 replies · 387+ views
    A number of veteran events are coming up in the Sierra Vista area. “The one-year clock is ticking and the name of the game is fundraising,” said Joe Larson, administrator of the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery. He was speaking about next May’s reburial of remains of soldiers from the late 1800s from a Tucson cemetery to the Sierra Vista site. Larson spoke at the monthly meeting of the Grater Sierra Vista Area United Veterans Council meeting on Saturday. The Historic Soldiers Relocation Project will involve the reburial of 70 sets of remains, of which 53 are known, in an...
  • Confederate group assists in reburial of Union soldiers

    05/28/2004 10:07:15 AM PDT · by Rebeleye · 4 replies · 545+ views
    Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch ^ | 27 May 2004 | Andrew Petofsky
    Seven...soldiers whose graves were opened by Hurricane Isabel will be reinterred Sunday in Yorktown National Cemetery...Confederate re-enactors from the area contributed time and money to build caskets modeled on those used at the time of the original burials in 1866, and will participate in the ceremony.