Veterans Legacy Memorial
2023 Updates and Enhancements
Memorializing Even More Veterans
Veterans Legacy Memorial (VLM) now honors nearly 10 million Veterans and service members on the nation’s first digital platform dedicated to their memory. This year, nearly 5 million new Veterans and service members were added to VLM, many interred in private and other non-VA cemeteries who had received a National Cemetery Administration (NCA)-provided headstone, marker or medallion since 1996.
A Digital Space to Memorialize the Legacies of Veterans
GovCIO works alongside partners to build, deploy, and enhance this online, interactive memorialization solution. 10 million of our nation’s heroes have individual memorial pages on VLM, allowing family and friends to share lasting memories by uploading written tributes, photos, documents and much more.
2023 Numbers
Veteran Profiles
VLM has nearly doubled the amount of Veteran profiles on the site with the recent addition of 5M Veterans from a new database.
New Veteran Profiles Added
The new database includes Veterans in 87 foreign countries and at State/Tribal/Territory and National Park Service Cemeteries.
Digital Tributes
Family and friends have uploaded and shared tributes, photos, documents and more to Veterans’ memorial pages.
“This particular effort of adding nearly 5 million additional pages was fairly complicated. We were tapping into a database that was new for us. Within that database, there were all kinds of variations of locations and addresses and cemetery names. Medallions were a different type of record than the headstone records or the marker records. The team did a lot of development work to accommodate all those kinds of variations of data.”
Honoring their Legacies
Remembering 1st Lt. Travis Manion and Lt. Brendan Looney Buried Next to Each Other at Arlington National Cemetery
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Our VLM Partners
We sat down with our Veterans Legacy Memorial partners MyKeeper and dbITpro to learn more about their efforts and why working on this project is so meaningful to them.
VA’s Veterans Legacy Memorial Awarded the Gold Quill of Excellence Award
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Legacy Memorial (VLM) program was awarded a Gold Quill of Excellence award from the International Association of Business Communicators.