My work as a battlefield tour guide has taken me to various destinations and many memorials erected to honor a unit or a particular action. Several European countries have special associations to look after the cemeteries where the dead of each nation is interred, such as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, CWGC, for Britain. The Belgium War Graves takes care of its war dead, while the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfursorge (VDK) administers to the German cemeteries from both world wars.
The American Battle Monuments Commission, the ABMC, looks after the
