Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is situated on high bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in South St. Louis County.  It covers over 400 acres of gently rolling hills within the original tract of the Jefferson Barracks Military Reservation.
Servicemen buried there represent those "who gave their last full measure of devotion," and who answered the call of duty from the War of Independence to the present day.  Interred are the remains and final resting place of over 13,000 men of the Civil War.
Also interred in this national cemetery are over 3,200 former servicemen "known but to God".  There are 500 group burials located throughout the cemetery, the largest number of such burials in the nation.  Two of these group burials hold the remains of over 1,000 soldiers, sailors and marines.
On July 10, 1998, the remains of Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie were returned to St. Louis.  Lt. Blassie was killed during the Vietnam War in 1972, and his remains were entombed in the 'Tomb Of The Unknowns' in Washington, DC.  DNA tests confirmed his identity and his family requested his burial in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.
Currently, there are over 125,000 burials in this cemetery.
*Information taken from "Historic Lemay, 1700-1945" by Vernon G. Schertel and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.

Mom and Dad's grave at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

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