{"id":77854,"date":"2025-05-08T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/05\/08\/vas-online-legacy-project-adds-names-of-210000-vets-lost-overseas\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:25:19","slug":"vas-online-legacy-project-adds-names-of-210000-vets-lost-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/veterans\/2025\/05\/08\/vas-online-legacy-project-adds-names-of-210000-vets-lost-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"VA\u2019s online legacy project adds names of 210,000 vets lost overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the nation celebrates the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/05\/08\/trump-proclaims-thursday-as-day-for-us-to-celebrate-victory-in-wwii\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/05\/08\/trump-proclaims-thursday-as-day-for-us-to-celebrate-victory-in-wwii\/\">80th anniversary of the end of World War II<\/a> in Europe, Veterans Affairs officials have added about 210,000 names of veterans killed or lost overseas \u2014 including about 93,000 WWII veterans \u2014 to the department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/veterans\/2024\/05\/20\/va-moving-to-let-living-veterans-prep-their-online-memorial-pages\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/veterans\/2024\/05\/20\/va-moving-to-let-living-veterans-prep-their-online-memorial-pages\/\">expanding online memorial project<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vlm.cem.va.gov\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.vlm.cem.va.gov\/\">Veterans Legacy Memorial <\/a>was launched in 2019 and creates websites recognizing the lives of deceased veterans, allowing relatives to update the online memorials with details for their service, post-military work and family history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scope of the project now includes more than 10 million names and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/military-honor\/salute-veterans\/2023\/11\/02\/va-adds-5-million-more-veterans-to-online-legacy-project\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/military-honor\/salute-veterans\/2023\/11\/02\/va-adds-5-million-more-veterans-to-online-legacy-project\/\">roughly doubled in the last two years<\/a>, with the addition of millions of veterans buried in private cemeteries worldwide to existing lists of individuals interred at VA and military sites. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/05\/08\/trump-proclaims-thursday-as-day-for-us-to-celebrate-victory-in-wwii\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Trump_62580.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump proclaims Thursday as day for US to celebrate victory in WWII<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday designating May 8, 2025, as a \u201cday in celebration of Victory Day for World War II.\u201d It is not a federal holiday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The expansion announced this week includes names from 26 overseas cemeteries and memorials administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABMC acting Secretary Robert Dalessandro said in a statement that the Veterans Legacy Project update \u201cadds new resources to honor our nation\u2019s veterans from all wars and brings their stories to those who aren\u2019t able to visit our sites overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump this week issued a proclamation recognizing May 8 as the 80th anniversary of the end of European hostilities in that conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the approximately 93,000 WWII veterans added to the veterans project, about 94,000 other names added to the list are of Americans missing in action overseas or buried at sea. 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