Cemetery
Fort Donelson National Cemetery, at 15.34 acres (62,080 m2), contains 670 Union dead, reinterred in 1867. There are numerous veterans from later wars. The cemetery is presently unavailable for additional burials.
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Famous quotes containing the word cemetery:
“The cemetery isn’t really a place to make a statement.”
—Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)
“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.”
—John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)