MINNEAPOLIS – Last Memorial Day, wet weather destroyed thousands of flags at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Now, a nonprofit group is trying to replace them, with their work essentially ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Much more than just a day off from work or school, Memorial Day is about remembering the people who died serving in our armed forces. There are events to honor that sacrifice ...

Fort Snelling National Cemetery, located near the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport International Airport on 34th Avenue, is the only national cemetery in Minnesota, a place to honor veterans (and ...

Twelve soldiers who fought on D-Day are buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Kelly said. As of 2023, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that less than 1% of World War II vets ...

Fort Snelling National Cemetery is hallowed ground. Every day, Christian Schwamberger, the cemetery’s grounds and monuments supervisor, takes care of those who served our nation one stone at a time.

Fort Snelling National Cemetery held a ceremony to honor service members across Minnesota on Monday, with both Governor Tim Walz and Senator Amy Klobuchar in attendance.

MINNEAPOLIS — Up to 5,000 people are expected to attend the Memorial Day program at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis. The hour-long event will begin at 10 a.m. May 26, and will ...

Agent David "Chris" Maland was interred at Fort Snelling National Cemetery on Saturday in Minneapolis. Maland is a native of Blue Earth, Minnesota, but had been living in Vermont at the time of ...

F ORT SNELLING, Minn. (KTTC) – Officials with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are partnering with the Fort Snelling National Cemetery to host a solemn Memorial Day wreath laying ceremony.

Dozens of volunteers on Saturday placed wreaths on the the headstones of veterans at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. The event, part of a nationwide remembrance called Wreaths Across America, was ...

A veteran's grave at the Fort Snelling National Cemetery was desecrated sometime in the last 24 hours, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office. ... Minnesota News You Can Use.