This is a panorama of six horizontally oriented images. The stitched images were cropped vertically
to exclude a large segment of sky and to focus attention on the seemingly endless field of headstones.
The panorama has been post processed with CS3 and converted to infrared in the black and white adjustment panel.
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At the end of 2007, there were 138,542 people interred here.
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In the United States, 1 of 4 homeless persons is a veteran of military service.
Recent VA data indicates that veterans are twice as likely as other Americans to be chronically homeless.
It is reported that male veterans are 1.3 times more likely to become homeless than non-veteran males;
and female veterans are 3.6 times more likely to become homeless than non-veteran females.
It seems somehow a pity that we care for them better in death than while living.
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For more information about the cemetary see http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/goldengate.asp

Information on homeless veterans and how you can help can be found at http://www.nchv.org/get_involved.cfm