MORE CLEANING AND PRESERVATION INFORMATION -- go to the National Cemetery Administration website (just google it) [part of the US Dept of Veterans Affairs] and in their search box search for "Fact Sheet: Cleaning Government - Furnished Headstones / Markers " See also KZbin postings: "Veteran Headstone Cleaning Protocol for Private and Municipal Cemeteries" and "MUST watch before cleaning Gravestones, by a Stone Carver"