Overseas Remembrances
Overseas Wreaths & Banners
Wreaths & Banners for Memorial Day 2023 ~ Click Here!
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Thanks to the time and attention of 16 AWON Volunteers (Stateside Coordinators) AWON maintains an annual Memorial Day Wreath and Banner program at 16 American Cemeteries of WWII around the World, maintained in reverence and with great dignity, consistency, and caring by the American Battle Monuments Commission (the ABMC), an agency of the Executive Branch. For a tour of all 16 Overseas American Cemeteries, Click Here!
To visit the website of the ABMC . . . Click Here! Also see the specific ABMC Webpage ~ also in this section!
Or ~ Click any of the 16 buttons below to visit these sacred grounds:
Ardennes Coordinator since 2004: Gail Eisenhauer
Buried: 5,317; Missing: 463; Total Remembered: 5,780;
AWON Men Remembered: 37;
Belgium ~ Dedicated: 1960 ~ Acres: 90.5
Brittany Coordinator since 2006: Brian Hope
Buried: 4,409; Missing: 500; Total Remembered: 4,909;
AWON Men Remembered: 27;
France ~ Dedicated: 1956 ~ Acres: 28.0
Cambridge Coordinator since 2005: Jean Rhinehart
Buried: 3,812; Missing: 5,127; Total Remembered: 8,939;
AWON Men Remembered: 38;
United Kingdom ~ Dedicated: 1956 ~ Acres: 30.5
Temporary Epinal Coordinator: Jean Rhinehart
Buried: 5,254; Missing: 424; Total Remembered: 5,678;
AWON Men Remembered: 43;
France ~ Dedicated: 1956 ~ Acres: 48.00
Florence Coordinator since 2017: Barbara Catterall
Buried: 4,399; Missing: 1,409; Total Remembered: 5,808;
AWON Men Remembered: 27;
Italy ~ Dedicated: 1960 ~ Acres: 70.00
Henri-Chapelle Coordinator since 2003: Rik Peirson
Buried: 7,992; Missing: 450; Total Remembered: 8,442;
AWON Men Remembered: 57;
Belgium ~ Dedicated: 1960 ~ Acres: 57.00
Lorraine Coordinator since 2012: Paul Bremer
Buried: 10,489; Missing: 444; Total Remembered: 10,933;
AWON Men Remembered: 56;
France ~ Dedicated: 1960 ~ Acres: 113.50
Lux Coordinator for the second time since 2004: Sandy MacDuffee
Buried: 5,075; Missing: 371; Total Remembered: 5,446;
AWON Men Remembered: 42;
Luxembourg ~ Dedicated: 1960 ~ Acres: 50.50
Manila Coordinator since 2020: Ruthie Joyce
Buried: 17,184; Missing: 36,286; Total Remembered: 53,470;
AWON Men Remembered: 78;
Philippines ~ Dedicated: 1960 ~ Acres: 152.00
Margraten Coordinator since 2019: Gloria Zuccarella Layne
Buried: 8,301; Missing: 1,722; Total Remembered: 10,023;
AWON Men Remembered: 82;
Netherlands ~ Dedicated: 1960 ~ Acres: 65.50
Normandy Coordinator since 2019: Rondy Elliott
Buried: 9,385; Missing: 1,557; Total Remembered: 10,942;
AWON Men Remembered:23;
France ~ Dedicated: 1956 ~ Acres: 172.50
Carthage Coordinator since 2019: Judge Bonnie Hellums
Buried: 2,841; Missing: 3,724; Total Remembered: 6,565;
AWON Men Remembered: 23;
Tunisia ~ Dedicated: 1960 ~ Acres: 27.00
Rhone Coordinator since 2006: Vic Muller, RIP
Buried: 860; Missing: 294; Total Remembered: 1,154;
AWON Men Remembered: 10;
France ~ Dedicated: 1956 ~ Acres: 12.52
Sicily-Rome Coordinator since 2004: Bob Meek, Jr.
Buried: 7,860; Missing: 3,095; Total Remembered: 10,955;
AWON Men Remembered: 31;
Italy ~ Dedicated: 1956 ~ Acres: 77.00
Punchbowl Coordinator since 2005: Susan Chadd
Missing: 28,909; Total Remembered: 28,809;
AWON Men Remembered: 67;
United States ~ Dedicated: 1966
Coordinator since 2020: The AWON Wreath & Banner Coordinator Collective
Buried: 1,565; Missing: 974; Total Remembered: 2,539;
AWON Men Remembered: all 24 WWII Dead, Known but to God;
France ~ Dedicated: 1937 ~ Acres: 7.50
You-Tube shorts:
Below is a 10-minute introduction to AWON; and finding the grave of PFC Harold B. McCarn ~ by AWONer James Weatherly
Below is a 15-minute film on the process of Graves Registration ~ by AWONer James Weatherly
Below is a less-than 5-minute film that conveys “Freedom” ~ more than a Tune!
