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About the Veterans Legacy Memorial (VLM)

The Veterans Legacy Memorial (VLM) is the nation's first digital platform dedicated entirely to the memory of more than 4.8 million Veterans interred in VA's national cemeteries. In 2023, we added more than 300,000 service members and Veterans interred in 27 Department of Defense-managed cemeteries into VLM. By far, the largest number of these additional Veterans and service members are interred in Arlington National Cemetery.

Launched in 2019, individual Veteran profile pages are populated with military service and cemetery information. Publicly available information gathered from VA records includes service branch with logo, dates of birth and death, rank, war period, decorations, emblem of belief, and cemetery information.

Interactive features allow family, friends, and the public to submit Tributes (comments), images, biographical information, and historical documents; create their Veteran's military service and personal achievements timeline; and generate a Word Cloud that describes their Veteran. The site also allows visitors to share Veteran profile pages by email and post them to social media, and users can "Follow a Veteran" to receive email alerts when new content is added to that Veteran's page.

Digital Remembrance Platform VLM Impacts Veteran Community

For surviving spouse Linda Monroe, Veterans Legacy Memorial allows her and her family to preserve the legacy of her late husband Bob.

» Contribute to your Veteran's story today at www.va.gov/Remember

Finding a Veteran

To find a Veteran's profile page, please enter the Veteran's Last Name. To narrow your search, you can enter the Veteran's First Name and use the drop-down menus to search by Service Branch, Year of Death, State/Territory, or Cemetery.

Screenshot of VLM profile page for Sara M Knutson Cullen

NOTE: Currently only Veterans buried in VA National Cemeteries; VA grant-funded state, territory and tribal Veterans cemeteries; DoD-managed cemeteries (including Arlington National Cemetery); and two U.S. Park Service National Cemeteries are included in VLM.

Submitting Content

Any user can view VLM pages and submit content, though logging in registering with VLM using an ID.me account will let a user to submit content without submitting a name and email address each time, and will allow a user to "like" other user-submitted content. Content can be submitted using various text fields, drop-down choices, and drop & drag options. Submitted images must be a jpg, png, gif, or heif files, and documents must be submitted as 508-compliant pdf files. All content is reviewed by VLM Moderators before being posted to Veteran pages to ensure it conforms to the VLM User Policy and appropriately honors Veterans.

When contributing to a Veteran's profile on VLM as a visitor, without signing into ID.me, you can enter your Name, Email, Agree to the Policy and check the "Remember Me" box and VLM will remember you for 30 minutes, allowing you to post more content without completing the visitor form.

VLM Customer Support

A VLM Customer Support representative for the Veterans Legacy Memorial website is available Monday to Friday (excluding Federal Holidays) from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Central Time at 1-866-245-1490. Or you can email VLM Customer Support* and someone will get back to you within 24 business hours.

See our VLM FAQ page for answers to common questions.

* Emails sent to VLM Customer Support are not secure; please do not send Personally Identifiable Information (PII) e.g. DD214, discharge documents, death certificates or other supporting documentation.

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