Word: grave
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...will have more than 13,000,000 new veterans, and all except aliens and those dishonorably discharged will be entitled to burial in military cemeteries-along with their wives, widows, minor children and unmarried daughters. To provide grave-space for the host of warriors and warriors' kin that may be buried in military cemeteries in the years to come. Congress last week hunted earnestly throughout the country for new burial grounds...
Recommended in bills now before the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees were national cemeteries in U.S. territories and 42 states (in addition to the 92 now in existence, where 483,000 veterans of former wars and their nearest kin are buried). The War Department and its grave-keeping Quartermaster Corps had asked $122,900,000 for 79 new cemeteries, with a capacity of 5,335,000 graves...
July 5-Lieut. Matsumai came to our dugout saying, "As long as I'm going to die, I want to die with the pharmacist's section." Also: "If this is going to be our grave let us make it clean." We attended to cleaning up the area. The furious assault of the enemy commenced. . . . Two men pathetically committed suicide due to severe wounds. The lieutenant and the pharmacist section bade farewell and promised to meet at the Yasukumi Shrine after death. I, with Lieut. Yamaguchi, was absorbed into the command section and was very happy...
Herded into the next room, the newsmen got the same short shrift from equally red-eyed Presidential Secretary Colonel Gregorio Tauber. "Gentlemen," he said, "the President and his ministers have made a decision which . . . joins the nation with her sister nations of America. . . . We have taken the grave resolution of declaring war on the Axis. Good...
Thanks to Burking, which got the public dander up more than simple grave-robbing had done, laws were passed in the 18305, allowing doctors to dissect unclaimed bodies. Today British and U.S. laws provide for such dissection under certain strict rules: e.g., after dissection, a medical school must give the remains a decent, religious burial...