FORT SNELLING, Minn. -- Authorities have exhumed the remains of a Minnesota veteran from a desecrated grave at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. A maintenance worker discovered a large amount of ...

Officials hope a pocketknife with the name “WALLY” scratched into its side will help them find out who desecrated a sailor’s grave at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. They hope a $10,000 ...

A memorial ceremony happens every year at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, but things look different this year. For the first time in 35 years, volunteers were able to raise enough money to place ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Like so many things, Fort Snelling National Cemetery is also impacted by ... in which nearly 200,000 American flags are placed at grave sites. Every year for Memorial Day ...

Long before thousands flow through the gates at Fort Snelling National Cemetery on Memorial ... Last year she called the cemetery to find out if she could bring her three children to help crews ...

Memorial Day is Monday and local group "Flags for Fort Snelling" has revived the tradition of placing an American flag at every gravestone in the Fort Snelling National Cemetery. The practice was ...

She found a flag at his grave. "I don't even know this person, but I respect them for doing that," said Thomes. There are more than 175,000 graves at Fort Snelling National Cemetery and by Monday ...

Sheriff Rich Stanek said “considerable amounts of ground and dirt” were overturned and removed from the area around the grave ... said. Fort Snelling National Cemetery employees don’t ...

MINNEAPOLIS — On the eve of Memorial Day, tens of thousands of American flags could be seen across the entirety of Fort Snelling National Cemetery ... flags on every grave for 2020.

The goal of getting a holiday wreath on every gravesite at Fort Snelling National Cemetery is tens of thousands ... thousands of wreaths to a veteran’s grave. “It’s a remembrance,” Andrea ...

Investigators walked around the scene where a World War II veterans grave had been desecrated at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Bloomington, Min., Thursday, July 12, 2012. (Star Tribune/The ...