Pride

Generations serve their country and care for each other side by side, with a bond unbroken even by death. Sgt. Terri Winter, a U.S. Army veteran, volunteer, and commander of the Fort Snelling Memorial Rifle Squad in 2014, connected her own service to her father's as a veteran and spoke of military service and honoring the dead as acts of love. Since 1979, the Fort Snelling Memorial Rifle Squad has honored fallen service members at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, which was dedicated in 1939 and is home to the first all-volunteer Memorial Rifle Squad in the national cemetery network. National cemeteries began during the Civil War, and today more than 170 across the United States contain the graves of U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their spouses. The squad has honored more than 70,000 veterans.

Minnesota · United States