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(DSC09996) The Graves Area is divided into eleven curved lettered plots (A to N, except I, K & M) of varying sizes forming concentric bands around the high ground on which the memorial stands. The 17,100 headstones within the plots form segments of concentric circles and mark the graves of 16,636 U.S. military and 570 Philippine Nationals who were serving with U.S. Forces in the Southwest Pacific. Of these headstones, 13,434 mark the graves of single identified remains; six mark the graves of 28 identified remains which could not be separated individually; 3,644 mark the graves of single unidentified remains (Unknowns); and 16 mark the graves of 100 unidentified remains which could not be separated individually. The heroic Dead interred in the cemetery represent all of the then 48 States of the Union, as well as the District of Columbia, Panama, Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Australia, Canada, China, England, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Finland, Jamaica, Burma and Peru. In 20 instances, two brothers lie side by side. Most of the white marble headstones were quarried in Lasa or Carrara, Italy; however, more than 100 were quarried and fabricated on the Island of Romblon in the Philippines. (Taken from http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeterie s/ml_pict.pdf)

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