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WANTED: Volunteers to Inventory Veterans Monuments in 2002!

      The National Cemetery Administration (NCA), part of the Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA), has partnered with Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) for
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 41 states, the District of Columbia 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 started in spring 2002, with data
collection to be completed by December 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.gov
and select "What's New."

Please contact us at one of the addresses below if you are interested in
participating in the memorials inventory.



nca.memorials@mail.va.gov
Sara Amy Leach, Historian, or
Darlene Richardson, Historian,
National Cemetery Administration
Department of Veterans Affairs
810 Vermont Avenue, NW (402B4)
Washington, DC 20420



D. Darlene Richardson, Historian
National Cemetery Administration
Department of Veterans Affairs
810 Vermont Avenue (402B4)
Washington, DC 20420
  Phone: (202) 565-5426
  Fax: (202) 565-8054
  Email: darlene.richardson@mail.va.gov
  http://www.cem.va.gov

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