Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery - Second Largest Cemetery in USA!

[@raw2933]

My Dad's is laid to rest there as well!! IT'S BEAUTIFUL!! They have the Husband and Wife if they choose to be barried on top of one another!! That's why the names on the 🪦 Sir. God Rest My Father Sole I Laid To Rest There!! USMC HOORAH!! 2008!! As well rest in peace to all that served and have the ultimate sacrifice for us!!

[@hisdukeness3037]

I laid my pops to rest there a few years back.. he’s with his brothers at arms, and the woman that love them

[@marthakasten4725]

My husband and I sang as part of today's 5/30/2022 Memorial Day service. It was so good to participate again now that the Covid restrictions have been lifted!

[@GetmeouttahereErik]

That’s awesome, way to be there for the vets and families!

[@cehart123]

If you drive back even further into the cemetery, you can see the pavilions where they do the service + military honors before interment

[@maxbryant3313]

I'm here at the cemetery and got here on my bike from the road you took off off Wauponsee Glacial Trail. There are dirt/ gravel roads all over this property. It was farmland yes but was taken over during the war and the thousands acres was the site of the Joliet Arsenal. The road system existed to get to the storage bunkers where explosives were stored. When the Arsenal was stricken from the records the land was divided. The Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie is the site now. You passed the sign when you went inside the yellow arm gates explaining that. More of the land became the Abraham Ntl. Cemetery. The rest is home of the 4th largest Intermodal site in the country! So actually there are 1 lane dirt roads that a hearse and funeral procession can come down...

[@chicagorattler]

Fun fact, that statue of Lincoln was commissioned to be his exact height.

[@GetmeouttahereErik]

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing!

[@chicagorattler]

@@GetmeouttahereErik thanks for the cool video.

[@chicagorattler]

Also the first section you were in has the only Congressional Medal of Honor recipient at the cemetery. Section 1 he is a civil war veteran G Theodore Hyatt

[@chicagorattler]

The walls with the names are the columbarium. Behind each stone is an urn.

[@kc0jqz]

Thank you😊 Do they have a Mausoleum for the cremated bodies?

[@GetmeouttahereErik]

Not sure if they do, there’s walls with cremated bodies interred but an official mausoleum I don’t think so.

[@charlydatduclai7734]

Hi there, this is a really beautiful video of Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. My friends and I will be going there on this Memorial Day weekend to place American flags on the military gravestones to honor America’s fallen soldiers. I live in Chicago, Illinois and I am getting really excited to go to this cemetery for the first time.

[@GetmeouttahereErik]

Thank you and that is incredibly generous of you. I think you will amazed at how immense and well kept it is.

[@brianduffie8200]

Coins are left on gravestones according to this order. Penny- is a visit Nickel -you were in boot camp together Dime - you served together Quarter - present when they passed.

[@GetmeouttahereErik]

Never heard of that before, excellent tribute!

[@amd280025]

Symbol you questioned is "Native American church of North America"

[@GetmeouttahereErik]

That’s amazing, thanks for sharing

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