As the country pays respects to those who served in the Armed Forces on Veterans Day, one Riverside cemetery continues to serve as the only Medal of Honor memorial in the country dedicated to veterans.

Riverside National Cemetery is home to the Medal of Honor Memorial , where veterans who’ve received the coveted title are honored with a monument. The memorial has the names of more than 3,500 Armed Forces members who earned the title.

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Mike Goldware is a volunteer at the site who came up with the idea for the memorial, which took years of planning and was dedicated in 1999. Every feature of the memorial was carefully thought out to reflect the powerful stories behind each name, Goldware said.

“The black granite is

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