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  • The Story Behind the Photo of a Bald Eagle on a Veteran's Grave

    11/11/2019 8:09:04 AM PST · by Kartographer · 19 replies
    Good Housekeeping ^ | 5/29/15 | MEGAN HARNEY
    It's the Memorial Day image that made Americans online everywhere put their hands to their hearts. A photo that amateur photographer Frank Glick snapped in 2011 of a bald eagle resting on a veteran's gravestone suddenly went viral after the Department of Veterans tweeted it earlier this week. And it's easy to see why. The shot depicts a bald eagle, America's iconic symbol of freedom, perched atop a gravestone, pensively looking out over the expanse. According to an interview with Fox News, Glick snapped the image early one morning at the Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minnesota before attending a...
  • Photo of eagle on Fort Snelling gravestone touches hearts, goes viral

    05/25/2019 10:26:04 AM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 48 replies
    StarTribune.com ^ | August 10, 2011 | Jon Tevlin
    Our readers are finding this photo at Fort Snelling National Cemetery worth sharing again, eight years after columnist Jon Tevlin wrote about it.
  • Photo of eagle on Fort Snelling gravestone touches hearts, goes viral

    05/26/2015 7:40:34 AM PDT · by afraidfortherepublic · 29 replies
    Star Tribune ^ | 5-26-15 | Jon Tevlin
    Talk to anyone in my business and they'll all say the same thing: No matter how long you write stories and put them in the newspaper, you are never really sure which ones are going to strike a nerve. What you think might be a Pulitzer-quality epic might draw only a nice call from Mom, while a simple tale tossed off on deadline causes an uproar, or an avalanche of praise. One legendary former investigative reporter at this paper wrote scores of stories that changed laws and saved lives, yet never did he get more mail than when he wrote...
  • (MN Cong. John)Kline saves Fort Snelling rifles

    02/08/2012 7:27:24 PM PST · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 10 replies
    StarTribune.com ^ | 2/8/12 | Kevin Diaz
    After an inquiry by U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the Pentagon is reversing a decision to limit the Fort Snelling Memorial Rifle Squad’s access to the ceremonial rifles they use for military burials. And to ensure other veterans don’t face similar red tape, Kline also is introducing legislation that will enable the Army to loan or donate excess rifles to eligible organizations – including local chapters of the American Legion and VFW. The move comes after members of the Rifle Squad complained to Kline, a retired Marine Colonel, that the Army wanted to recoup a number of their vintage ceremonial...
  • Fort Snelling squad sticking to its guns

    12/23/2011 9:52:25 PM PST · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 24 replies
    StarTribune.com ^ | 11/21/11 | Kevin Diaz
    After some 60,000 burials over the past three decades, the veterans on the Fort Snelling Memorial Rifle Squad have gotten used to their World War I vintage Springfield 03 bolt action rifles. Now the Army wants to replace them with a newer model. But it won't be without a fight. "What the heck is the problem?" said Tom Mullon, a 74-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran and 12-year volunteer for the squad, which fires off three rifle volleys followed by taps at veterans' burials. "The whole squad is irked about it. We're doing a job for the Army, and we don't cost...
  • Photo of eagle on Fort Snelling gravestone touches hearts, goes viral

    08/12/2011 11:12:03 AM PDT · by DManA · 114 replies
    Star Tribune ^ | August 10, 2011 | JON TEVLIN
    Talk to anyone in my business and they'll all say the same thing: No matter how long you write stories and put them in the newspaper, you are never really sure which ones are going to strike a nerve. [snip] Requests for the photo, and use of the story, have come from the Department of Veterans Affairs, military publications, Arlington National Cemetery. Soldiers in Afghanistan have inquired about the photo, including some from the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, stationed at Bagram Airfield. "I sent a good-sized one to a base in Afghanistan because they wanted to build...
  • Fort Snelling Military Museum to close with a bang

    07/15/2011 10:33:09 PM PDT · by Hunton Peck · 16 replies
    Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) ^ | 07/16/2011 12:01:44 AM CDT | Richard Chin
    It's tanks for the memories at the Fort Snelling Military Museum. The volunteer-run organization, which has restored dozens of vintage tanks, jeeps, armored cars, trucks, halftracks and other American military vehicles, must shut down because the U.S. government wants to move the collection to other Army museums around the country. The museum, which is on Army Reserve land next to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, is scheduled to close in September. "Basically, it's a victim of the Base Realignment and Closure act," said Nick Goodwin, museum director and a chief warrant officer with the Army Reserve. All the vehicles in...
  • 'The eagle couldn't have picked a better person' (Tissue Alert)

    06/28/2011 3:31:52 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 32 replies
    StarTribune.com ^ | 6/28/11 | Jon Tevlin
    It was a crow that first caught Frank Glick's attention. It was flying around erratically, so Glick got out his Nikon camera and followed it. It was around 6 a.m. on a hazy spring day and he was driving through Fort Snelling National Cemetery because he was early for a training meeting at Delta Airlines, where he works. Glick is an amateur photographer, but he always carries his camera, just in case. So he followed the crow, in some cultures a symbol of good luck and magic, until he saw it: a huge eagle perched on a tombstone, its eyes...
  • National cemetery full of stories waiting to be told (MN)

    05/25/2009 7:28:51 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 1 replies · 286+ views
    KARE11.com ^ | 5/25/09 | John Croman
    There are more than 150,000 people buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. And while the headstones appear identical from a distance each one tells a story about a person who served the nation in uniform at some point in life. David and Margaret Sorensen of Edina, and their children David Roy and McKenzie, could be seen from a distance Monday standing above one such grave marker. "Arthur Marius Sorensen," Margaret Sorensen explained, "It's my children's great grandfather. They never met him, but we like to bring them out here and try to tell stories." Sorensen was a new Danish immigrant...