American Battle Monuments Commission

The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is a little autonomous office of the United States government that oversees, works, and keeps up lasting U.S. military graveyards, commemorations and landmarks both inside and outside the United States.

Starting 2015, there are 25 locales under the consideration of the ABMC. There are 124,905 U.S. servicemen and servicewomen entombed at these locales, and more than 94,000 long gone, or lost or covered adrift, whose names are separately cut into landmarks. The ABMC additionally keeps up an online database of names connected with each site.


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1History

• 2Structure
  • 2.1Chairmen of the ABMC
  • 2.2Board of Commissioners
  • 2.3Secretary
• 3Operations
• 4Cemeteries and Memorials of the ABMC
• 5Monuments of the ABMC
• 6See also
  • 6.1Other national war graves commissions
• 7References
• 8Bibliography
• 9External links
  
  History
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  The ABMC was set up by the United States Congress in 1923. Its motivation is to: 
  Honor the administrations of the U.S. military where they have served since April 6, 1917; 
  Build up appropriate War commemorations; planning, developing, working, and keeping up lasting U.S. military cemetery in remote nations; 
  Control the configuration and development of U.S. military landmarks and markers in outside nations by different U.S. nationals and associations, both open and private; 
  Energize the support of such landmarks and markers by their patrons. 
  The United States Department of War built up eight European graveyard for World War I. The ABMC's first program was finishing and raising non-partisan houses of prayer at each of the eight destinations, developing 11 separate landmarks and two tablets at different locales in Europe, and building the Allied Expeditionary Forces World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.[3] For those covered who couldn't be distinguished amid World War I, a rate were remembered by Star of David markers, as opposed to a cross; this practice was not proceeded for the individuals who couldn't be recognized amid World War II.
  In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt marked an official request exchanging control of the eight graveyards to the ABMC, and made the commission in charge of the outline, development, upkeep and operation of all future lasting American military cemetery outside the United States. 
  The ABMC has been the overseer of burial grounds, landmarks and dedications for World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Mexican–American War. In 2013, Clark Veterans Cemetery in the Philippines turned into the 25th site under the control of the commission. Clark Veterans Cemetery goes back to the Philippine–American War at the turn of the twentieth century.[5]