I got this press release in the mail and thought the project might interest some on the list. Jeannie Regan-Dinius Cemetery Registry Coordinator Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology 317/232-1646 317/232-0693 (fax) 402 W. Washington Street RM W274 Indianapolis, IN 46204-2739 The National Cemetery Administration (NCA), part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!), are partnering to undertake an exciting new project to inventory and document for the first time an estimated 300 major monuments dedicated to fallen soldiers. NCA is a Federal agency with jurisdiction over 153 cemetery properties in 42 states and Puerto Rico, including national cemeteries and affiliated soldiers', Government, and Confederate lots. Burials at more than two-thirds of these properties date to the Civil War or earlier, when they were administered by the U.S. Army. SOS! is part of Heritage Preservation, a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and care of many types of historic resources, and it has more than 10 years' experience in volunteers' survey of outdoor sculpture nationwide. The monuments are located in more than 100 NCA cemetery properties across the country. NCA will provide volunteers with inventory forms and instructions, cemetery maps, and 35mm film. Volunteers should be comfortable taking photographs and measurements, and performing some basic research; they will be responsible for supplying their own 35mm camera, the cost of film development, and personal transportation. The monument- inventory project starts in spring 2002, with data collection to be completed by September 2002. Volunteers will have several months to complete the work-whether it's a survey of one monument or several. Upon completion of the project, the information will be publicly accessible on-line through another SOS! partner, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Interested in volunteering, or know someone who might be? To sign up or learn more about the project, visit our website at http://www.cem.va.pov. Please contact us at one of the addresses below to indicate your interest in participating in the memorials inventory. nca.memorials@mail.va.gov or OR Sara Amy Leach, Historian National Cemetery Administration Department of Veterans Affairs 810 Vermont Ave., NW (402B4) Washington, DC 20420 The deadline for contacting NCA to volunteer is May 8, 2002.