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| Old Guard photographs every Arlington grave |
| 2011-08-26 |
| The sometimes eerie task to photograph more than 219,000 grave markers and the front of more than 43,000 sets of cremated remains in the columbarium is part of the Army's effort to account for every grave and to update and fully digitize the cemetery's maps. The Old Guard performs its work at night to escape the summer heat and to avoid interrupting funerals. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #2 Link: Scanning pre-civil war gravestones in 3D to pull out the text - Not Arlington |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-08-26 15:34 |
| #1 There is nothing remotely "eerie" about this project, any more than visiting a loved one's grave site is "eerie." It's far overdue but is finally getting done. Perhaps relatives and friends of those buried at Arlington will be able to see the grave markers if they are unable to make a visit. There is a worldwide project closely related to this, called FindAGrave which is a public voluntary database of deaths and grave markers worldwide. It is also useful to family & local historians. Findagrave already has some web pages for Arlington National Cemetery, but only 337, since it's a volunteer effort. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-26 15:05 |