This National Cemetery Administration (NCA) publication is the first in a series on topics related to World War II. This introductory booklet coincides with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the war and explains our sacred duty to memorialize the men and women who served in that epic conflict and who now rest in cemeteries managed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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