Memorial Day in the City of Angels

Salient rows of marble grace the 114 acres of the Los Angeles National Cemetery in the Westwood neighborhood of the sprawling metro area of Southern California. Founded in 1889, two years after the Pacific Branch of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was built nearby on donated ranch land, the vast cemetery is a poignant reminder of the cost of freedom to the millions who pass by every year on the adjacent boulevards. As a young boy in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with the new