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Laying a Wreath at ANC

By Kevin M. Hymel on 2/11/2020

Valerie Haeder enjoyed the pine scent wafting from the back of the truck filled with wreaths as she waited to receive hers. “It’s Christmas in a truck,” she recalled.

Battle of Midway Hero Rests at ANC

By Kevin M. Hymel on 12/20/2019

In the movie “Midway,” Lieutenant Commander Richard “Dick” Best (played by Ed Skrein) dives his SBD Dauntless bomber toward two Japanese aircraft carriers and drops his bombs, scoring hits on both—on the same day! Anyone watching the movie might think this heroic act was the stuff of Hollywood dramatic license, but it was not.

Kevin M. Hymel
Navy
US Navy

Preserving ANC's Built Heritage: Tanner Amphitheater

By Timothy Lawson on 12/12/2019

In June 2019, ANC, in partnership with the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center, finished a four-year project to restore the James Tanner Amphitheater, constructed in 1873. 

Timothy Lawson
restoration
Tanner Amphitheater

Remembering a Hero Laid to Rest This Day Fifteen Years Ago

By Timothy Lawson on 11/29/2019

Fifteen years ago, we laid to rest Corporal Dale A. Burger, Jr. who was killed in action during the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004.

Timothy Lawson
Battle of Fallujah
Marine Corps
OIF
Silver Star

Marine Private Edwin Francis Benson’s Repatriation from Tarawa

By Kevin M. Hymel on 11/29/2019

Whenever Edgar and Mary Argensinger asked their grandmother what happened to their Uncle John in World War II, she always told them the same thing: Her son was “blown to bits” on a Pacific Atoll called Tarawa. That’s why his body was never returned to her.

Kevin M. Hymel
DPAA
Marine Corps
Section 60
Tarawa