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Statues and monuments related to the Confederacy have been vandalized and toppled in recent days across the country, and now a memorial has been destroyed in a church cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland. The memorial marked the graves of 17 Confederate soldiers, many unidentified. It was spray painted earlier in the week and then toppled over Wednesday night by vandals at Grace Episcopal Church.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2008 – Volunteers will gather at noon tomorrow at Arlington National Cemetery to place holiday wreaths on veterans’ gravesites as part of the nationwide “Wreaths Across America” project. Volunteers fan out over Arlington National Cemetery, Va., to place 5,000 wreaths on the graves of veterans as part of the 2006 “Wreaths Across America” project. The wreaths, donated by a Maine businessman, attracted thousands of people to pay their respects to veterans. DoD photo by Jim Garamone  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The Worcester Wreath Company from Harrington, Maine, has donated about 90,000 wreaths for the...

AUSTRALIANS were united in outrage yesterday as they demanded the French Government respect the memory of our nation's war dead. Reacting to plans by France to build an international airport on the Somme battlefields – the site of thousands of World War I and II graves – the country threw its collective support behind an effort to stop the construction. After revealing the names of 61 Australian soldiers whose remains could be exhumed under the airport proposal, The Daily Telegraph yesterday was flooded with messages of anger and grief. Among them was the family of private Gerald Ryan, who died...