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Los Angeles National Cemetery


Los Angeles National Cemetery




Bob Hope Veterans Chapel

At the entrance to the cemetery is the Bob Hope Veterans Chapel. In front of the chapel are markers inscribed with words adapted from the poem "Bivouac of the Dead" by Theodore O'Hara.  
plaque THE MUFFLED DRUM'S SAD ROLL HAS BEAT
THE SOLDIER'S LAST TATTOO.
NO MORE ON LIFE'S PARADE SHALL MEET
THAT BRAVE AND FALLEN FEW.
 
plaque ON FAME'S ETERNAL CAMPING-GROUND,
THEIR SILENT TENTS ARE SPREAD,
AND GLORY GUARDS WITH SOLEMN ROUND
THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD.
 
plaque NO RUMOR OF THE FOE'S ADVANCE
NOW SWEEPS UPON THE WIND,
NO TROUBLED THOUGHT AT MIDNIGHT HAUNTS
OF LOVED ONES LEFT BEHIND.
 
plaque NO VISION OF THE MORROW'S STRIFE
THE WARRIOR'S DREAM ALARMS.
NO BRAYING HORN NOR SCREAMING FIFE
AT DAWN SHALL CALL TO ARMS.
 
plaque THE NEIGHING TROOP, THE FLASHING BLADE,
THE BUGLE'S STIRRING BLAST,
THE CHARGE, THE DREADFUL CANNONADE,
THE DIN AND SHOUT ARE PAST.
 
plaque YOUR OWN PROUD LAND'S HEROIC SOIL
MUST BE YOUR FITTER GRAVE,
SHE CLAIMS FROM WAR HIS RICHEST SPOIL
THE ASHES OF THE BRAVE.
 

Bob Hope Veterans Chapel
Bob Hope plaque

BOB HOPE
VETERANS CHAPEL

This historic Chapel is dedicated to honor

BOB HOPE

on his 99th Birthday - May 29th, 2002
in celebration of his lifelong service
to our American Veterans.

On behalf of all Veterans whose lives
were touched by this legendary performer...

The dedication of the Bob Hope Veterans Chapel
was achieved through cooperation between the
Federal Government and Veterans Park Conservancy,
a nonprofit community organization.
 




The Columbarium

The cemetery grounds contain an indoor columbarium, which is a vault with niches for urns containing the ashes of the dead. A plaque on the building indicates it was built by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in 1940. It has a red brick exterior with Spanish style arches. Inside it is very ornate, making use of marble, tiles, and muted glass to let in the sunlight. There are also display cases containing military uniforms. Above the entrance to the columbarium there is a marble plaque that is incribed with the words, "WHERE VALOR PROUDLY SLEEPS."

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War Memorial

In the center of the cemetery is a brick and concrete memorial with a large platform for seating and a podium. On the front of the podium is a bronze plaque imprinted with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. There are also plaques on the left and right corners of the structure.
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memorial plaque
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
OF THE UNITED STATES
LADIES AUXILIARY DEPARTMENT
OF CALIFORNIA.
HUMBLY HONOR THE MEMORY
OF THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE
UNTIED STATES ARMED FORCES
WHO OFFERED THEIR LIVES
IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY.

1946
 




memorial plaque
1898     -     1902

UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS

IN TRIBUTE TO OUR
BOYS WHO LEFT THEIR
HOMES IN DEFENSE OF
THEIR COUNTRY

PRESENTED BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA
AUXILIARY UNITED SPANISH
WAR VETERANS
1949     -     1950
 




memorial plaque

soldier statue soldier statue
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN

AT THE DEDICATION OF

THE GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY
NOVEMBER 19, 1863.


FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO OUR FATHERS BROUGHT FORTH ON THIS CONTINENT, A NEW NATION, CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY, AND DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.

NOW WE ARE ENGAGED IN A GREAT CIVIL WAR, TESTING WHETHER THAT NATION, OR ANY NATION SO CONCEIVED AND SO DEDICATED, CAN LONG ENDURE, WE ARE MET ON A GREAT BATTLE-FIELD OF THAT WAR. WE HAVE COME TO DEDICATE A PORTION OF THAT FIELD, AS A FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR THOSE WHO HERE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT THAT NATION MIGHT LIVE. IT IS ALTOGETHER FITTING AND PROPER THAT WE SHOULD DO THIS.

BUT, IN A LARGER SENSE, WE CAN NOT DEDICATE - WE CAN NOT CONSECRATE - WE CAN NOT HALLOW - THIS GROUND. THE BRAVE MEN, LIVING AND DEAD, WHO STRUGGLED HERE, HAVE CONSECRATED IT, FAR ABOVE OUR POOR POWER TO ADD OR DETRACT. THE WORLD WILL LITTLE NOTE, NOR LONG REMEMBER WHAT WE SAY HERE, BUT IT CAN NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID HERE. IT IS FOR US THE LIVING, RATHER, TO BE DEDICATED HERE TO THE UNFINISHED WORK WHICH THEY WHO FOUGHT HERE HAVE THUS FAR SO NOBLY ADVANCED. IT IS RATHER FOR US TO BE HERE DEDICATED TO THE GREAT TASK REMAINING BEFORE US - THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION - THAT WE HERE HIGHLY RESOLVE THAT THESE DEAD SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN - THAT THIS NATION UNDER GOD, SHALL HAVE A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM - AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH.
 




IN MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO
OFFERED THEIR LIVES IN DEFENSE
OF THEIR COUNTRY


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IN HONOR OF THE
3RD INFANTRY DIVISION
U.S. ARMY


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DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO SERVED HONORABLY
IN THE THIRD INFANTRY DIVISION UNITED STATES ARMY
"ROCK OF THE MARNE"

"Nous Resterons La"
World War I  *Aisne *Champagne-Marne *Aisne-Marne *St Mihiel *Meuse-Argonne *Champagne

2 Medals of Honor
World War II *Algiers-French Morocco *Tunisia *Sicily *Naples-Foggia *Anzio *Rome-Arno

*Ardennes-Alsace *Southern France *Rhineland *Central Europe
36 Medals of Honor
Korea        *CCF Intervention *1st UN Counteroffensive *CCF Spring Offensive *UN Summer-Fall Offensive

*2nd Korean Winter *Korea Summer-Fall 1952 *3rd Korean Winter *Korea Summer 1953
11 Medals of Honor
Persian Gulf *Defense of Saudia Arabia *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait


Presented by The Society of the Third Infantry Division: Outpost 22




Los Angeles National Cemetery The Los Angeles National Cemetery is located at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Sepulveda Boulevard in West Los Angeles. map.




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