Haymarket-area veterans provide plaques to heroes without headstones

When American Legion Post 1799 Post Commander Carlos Collat learned there were 20 unmarked veteran graves at the Stonewall Memory Gardens Cemetery in Manassas, he had to act.

“[These veterans were] laid to rest without the proper military burial and benefits they earned through their service to our country,” Collat said. “These individuals rest in the forgotten ground, their lives known only to the cemetery.”

Collat served in the U.S. Army for 31 years as ground combat advisor, a...