So the best way to honor them is to preserve the place where theyve been laid to rest. Very few have been buried here since world war i sends so it became a largely forgotten place but this morning a large group of socially distance visitors kept alive a memorial dead tradition that has been unbroken for the last 149 years. We have never missed that itsti at we are here. Rep mete the fil g ofy,ughtof fry whe the stngled baofonor wi the old graveyard has deteriorated badly, especially since the navy base was shut down in 1996. We have come over here for years and its been so run down and when the government left it got worse. Reporter for years, the federal government refused to fix the place up, but recently, the 801st company of the u. S. Army corps of engineers took up the challenge. Old sick trees were removed, the fencing was taken away to be restored later, and gravestones darkened with age are being cleaned and repaired. Soon, a drainage problem will finally be fixed that is lite
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