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Lunchtime Lecture with Christopher McKee

National Museum of the United States Navy Washington Navy Yard, Washington

Wandering Bodies: A Tale of One Burying Ground, Two Cemeteries, and the U.S. Navy’s Search for Appropriate Burial for Its Career Enlisted Dead The United States Naval Asylum (later the United States Naval Home) was built at Philadelphia in the late 1820s as a permanent residence for elderly and disabled long-service naval enlisted sailors and