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    1. Check out ABMC Home Page
    2. _Click here: ABMC Home Page_ (http://www.abmc.gov/) For soldiers who died in battle..... I got a nice picture of my relative's gravesite in the Netherlands for free. It is the American Battle Monuments Commission -- they sent me a huge color picture of the cemetery and a smaller black & white of his headstone. Here is a list of their services from their website: The commission receives more than 9,000 inquiries yearly, many seeking to facilitate visits or locate individual grave sites. ABMC provides the following services to requestors: * Name, location, and information on cemeteries and memorials. * Plot, row and grave number or memorialization location of Honored War Dead * Best in-country routes and modes of travel to cemeteries or memorials. * Information on accommodations near cemeteries or memorials. * Escort service for relatives to grave and memorial sites within the cemeteries. * Letters authorizing fee-free passports for members of the immediate family traveling overseas to visit a grave or memorialization site. * Black and white photographs of headstones and Tablets of the Missing on which the names of dead or missing are engraved. * Arrangements for floral decorations placed at graves and memorialization sites. * An Honor Roll Certificate containing data on a Korean War casualty suitable for framing. * Polaroid color photographs of donated floral decorations in place. The commission also provides friends and relatives of those interred in its cemeteries or memorialized on its Tablets of the Missing with color lithographs of the cemetery or memorial on which is mounted a photograph of the headstone or commemorative inscription. The Andrews Project, named in honor of its sponsor, the late Congressman George W. Andrews, is ABMC’s most popular service.

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