The VA will provide a headstone for any eligible veteran, even if they’re already in an unmarked grave, in any cemetery around the world. In selecting a headstone, the National Cemeteries ...

For Thor’s hammer to become an approved symbol for veteran headstones, then, the VA had to first be persuaded that a symbol commonly (and incorrectly) denounced by politicians and the media ...

the Department of Veterans Affairs announced late Monday that it had begun the process removing the headstones of three German POWs from World War II bearing Nazi symbols from two VA national ...

If an emblem that next of kin wanted inscribed on a headstone was not available ... the National Cemetery Administration. The VA's list now has 61 symbols, ranging from crosses to a swirling ...

According to the VA, the original headstones for Kafka ... the group of House lawmakers wrote that allowing the headstones “with symbols and messages of hatred, racism, intolerance, and genocide ...

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie told Congress Thursday that headstones on the graves of German prisoners of war in two VA cemeteries ... for the removal of the symbols.

The headstones are in the Fort Sam Houston ... galaxies away from putting up the swastika symbol itself," he said. The VA initially resisted the change, citing precedent and restrictions under ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs maintains more than four million gravesites across the U.S. Three of them have Nazi swastikas carved into the headstones ... with Nazi symbols at military ...

They include commonly recognized symbols for Christianity ... two other Wiccan churches and three individuals. VA-issued headstones, markers and plaques can be used in any cemetery, whether ...

“To be buried next to people they fought displaying that symbol of hate is disgusting.” Weinstein said VA’s policy on the historic nature of the headstones needs to be re-examined in light ...