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“Today, we remember the fallen who made the ultimate sacrifice, particularly those who are honored around us here, their names inscribed on the Wall of the Missing,” said Hugh Duberly, Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. “We remember them.”
Attendees watched as wreaths were placed at the Wall of the Missing, while U.S. Air Force Honor Guardsmen conducted a twenty-one gun salute, followed by the playing of taps to honor the fallen.
“These men answered their nations call,” said Brig Gen Dieter Bareihs, U.S. Senior Defense Attaché in London. “Not all of them were eager to leave their homes, but they did, so that our freedom could be preserved.
The cemetery contains 3,812 headstones, and a Wall of the Missing, which stands nearly 500-feet in length and contains the names of more than 5,000 men from the U.S. Army, Army Air Corps, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard who are still listed as missing-in-action, buried at sea or unaccounted-for.
| Date Taken: | 05.30.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 06.02.2016 05:22 |
| Story ID: | 199733 |
| Location: | CAMBRIDGE, SFK, GB |
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