Name: Memorial Day: New Connections to Heroes' Past
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But for those whose heroism ended decades ago and overseas, there's a push to bring their stories closer to home.

"I’m walking toward the grave of Ellen Ainsworth. She's buried here in plot C," said Mark Ireland, superintendent of Sicily-Rome American Cemetery.

The final resting place of U.S. Army Second Lieutenant Ellen Ainsworth is far from her hometown of Glenwood City, Wisconsin.

But the World War II army nurse still draws visitors at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery.

"We take the sand and rub this across her name," Ireland said. "For a family member, it creates this physical and emotional connection."

Sicily-Rome American Cemetery—about 40 miles south of Rome, Italy—is one of the cemeteries administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission, which maintains monuments to more than 200,000 of the nation's fallen heroes outside of the United States, including the sites like Paris and Normandy.

"They are powerful sites and ruins that are an incredible place to visit and honor the dead of World War I and World War II," said Ben Brands, American Battle Monuments Commission historian. "However, our audience is the American people, and many Americans will never get the chance to physically journey to one of our cemeteries.

The Commission has now partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to bring the stories of these service members closer to home, using the VA's digital veterans legacy memorial.

"These American heroes deserve to be remembered and their stories to be told just as any other veteran or service member," said James LaPaglia, digital services officer at the VA.

LaPaglia says the digital database, launched in 2019, is intended to make the stories of every U.S. veteran more interactive, more vivid, and more accessible.

"We wanted to take the cemetery experience beyond the confines of a gate or a cemetery wall," LaPaglia said.

With their data, the VA has created online memorial pages for more than 10 million U.S. service members in VA and VA grant-funded cemeteries, Department of Defense cemeteries, like Arlington National Cemetery, and other sites abroad.

Family members, friends, and the public can submit photos and mementos to populate each page and share a veteran's story, like Ainsworth's, which ended in February 1944 in Italy.

While her hospital was under attack, she moved her patients to safety and died from her own injuries days later—a story Ireland says still inspires.

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