DoD Launches Memorial Honoring the Fallen
Soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery
Photo by: U.S. Army/Elizabeth Fraser
Wed, 12/22/2021 - 13:45
The Defense Department has launched Military In Lasting Tribute, an online memorial honoring service members who died while serving honorably on active duty.
The memorial is the first DoD memorial to include peacetime deaths, and it ranges from 1985 to the present, according to a Pentagon press release. More than 47,000 service members have died on active-duty status since 1985, according to the Defense Manpower Data Center.
The page offers family members another place to remember their loved one, said Deb Skillman, director of casualty, mortuary affairs and military funeral honors.
"The site is a destination for family members to view, remember, honor and share the sacrifice of their service members with other family members and friends, their networks, extended survivor community and military family," Skillman said in a DoD news release. "This digital memorial serves as an enduring tribute to military heroes, who will forever be part of our military community.”
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