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     Last year nearly nine million American and foreign citizens visited ABMC cemeteries and memorials.  Of the 3.6 million cemetery visits, 7,513 were next of kin and 841,117 were U.S. citizens. Normandy was the most visited cemetery, hosting 1.5 million, while more than 5 million people visited the Honolulu Memorial.

     The commission receives more than 9,000 inquiries yearly, many seeking to facilitate visits or locate individual grave sites. ABMC provides the following services to requestors:

• Name, location, and information on cemeteries and memorials.
• Plot, row and grave number or memorialization location of Honored War Dead.
• Best in-country routes and modes of travel to cemeteries or memorials.
• Information on accommodations near cemeteries or memorials.
• Escort service for relatives to grave and memorial sites within the cemeteries.
• Letters authorizing fee-free passports for members of the immediate family traveling overseas to visit a grave or memorialization site.
• Black and white photographs of headstones and Tablets of the Missing on which the names of dead or missing are engraved.
• Arrangements for floral decorations placed at graves and memorialization sites.
• An Honor Roll Certificate containing data on a Korean War casualty suitable for framing.
• Polaroid color photographs of donated floral decorations in place.

     The commission also provides friends and relatives of those interred in its cemeteries or memorialized on its Tablets of the Missing with color lithographs of the cemetery or memorial on which is mounted a photograph of the headstone or commemorative inscription. The Andrews Project, named in honor of its sponsor, the late Congressman George W. Andrews, is ABMC’s most popular service.

      We can assist you in your planned visit to any of our installation, can arrange for the placement of floral decorations at an individual's grave or marker and and can give you information on any individual buried or honored at out cemeteries or memorials.  We also maintain a listing of those Americans who gave their lives in the service of their country during the Korean War and at the Demilitarized Military Zone (DMZ) during the truce after the war. For requesting information you may write to us or send us your request through the Web.  Write to us at: