U.S. fallen remembered at Madingley

Hundreds gathered to honor the memory of the thousands of U.S. Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their nation on Memorial Day, May 30, at Madingley American Cemetery in Cambridge, England. The cemetery contains 3,812 headstones and a Wall of the Missing, which stands nearly 500 feet in length and contains the names of more than 5,000 men from the U.S. Army, Army Air Corps, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard who are still listed as missing-in-action, buried at sea or unaccounted-for. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Tech Sgt. Matthew Plew)

U.S. fallen remembered at Madingley

Hundreds gathered to honor the memory of the thousands of U.S. Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their nation on Memorial Day, May 30, at Madingley American Cemetery in Cambridge, England. Attendees watched as wreaths were placed at the Wall of the Missing, while U.S. Air Force Honor Guardsmen conducted a twenty-one gun salute, followed by the playing of taps to honor the fallen. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Tech Sgt. Matthew Plew)

U.S. fallen remembered at Madingley

Sir Hugh Duberly, Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dieter Bareihs, U.S. Senior Defense Attaché in London, accept their respective wreaths prior to placing them at the base of the Wall of the Missing on Memorial Day, May 30, at Madingley American Cemetery in Cambridge, England. Hundreds gathered to honor the memory of the thousands of U.S. Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their nation. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Tech Sgt. Matthew Plew)

U.S. fallen remembered at Madingley

Hundreds gathered to honor the memory of the thousands of U.S. Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their nation on Memorial Day, May 30, at Madingley American Cemetery in Cambridge, England. Attendees watched as wreaths were placed at the Wall of the Missing, while U.S. Air Force Honor Guardsmen conducted a twenty-one gun salute, followed by the playing of taps to honor the fallen. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Tech Sgt. Matthew Plew)

U.S. fallen remembered at Madingley

Published May 31, 2016
By Tech Sgt. Matthew Plew
48th Fighter Wing Public Affairs

ROYAL AIR FORCE Lakenheath, England -- Hundreds gathered to honor the memory of the thousands of U.S. Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their nation on Memorial Day, May 30, at Madingley American Cemetery in Cambridge, England.

“Today, we remember the fallen who made the ultimate sacrifice, particularly those who are honored around us here, their names inscribed on the Wall of the Missing,” said Hugh Duberly, Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. “We remember them.”

Attendees watched as wreaths were placed at the Wall of the Missing, while U.S. Air Force Honor Guardsmen conducted a twenty-one gun salute, followed by the playing of taps to honor the fallen.

“These men answered their nations call,” said Brig. Gen. Dieter Bareihs, U.S. Senior Defense Attaché in London. “Not all of them were eager to leave their homes, but they did, so that our freedom could be preserved.

The cemetery contains 3,812 headstones and a Wall of the Missing, which stands nearly 500 feet in length and contains the names of more than 5,000 men from the U.S. Army, Army Air Corps, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard who are still listed as missing-in-action, buried at sea or unaccounted-for.