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November 26, 2008 Researchers: 139 WWII Marines entombed on atoll
September 05, 2008 Remains of 3 sailors from Pearl Harbor identified
April 24, 2007 Wiccans Settle Military Grave Lawsuit
December 27, 2006 Air Force looks to outsource casket duty
August 13, 2006 Killer may be removed from national cemetery
May 15, 2006 Australia's worst aviation disaster is to be commemorated
May 07, 2006 Local man fights to return Civil War remains for burial
April 08, 2006 Mortuary team takes pride
November 06, 2005 Military Tries To ID Frozen Airman
August 23, 2005 Troops Gravestones Have Pentagon Slogans
July 31, 2005 Its a Grave Misunderstanding
July 27, 2005 Exhibit shows Civil War attacked the privies
June 02, 2005 Garden of Stone
April 30, 2005 Cost of war hits home as coffin photos released
March 17, 2005 VA Awards Grant for Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery
November 18, 2004 Armys mortuary unit brings home Americas war dead
October 07, 2004 Arlington funeral a moving experience
October 02, 2004 Grave Claims: Historians in Thomasville believe that Confederate, Union soldiers
September 21, 2004 Military delicately ships personal effects home
September 21, 2004 Mortuary affairs unit leaves for Middle East
August 30, 2004 Burials delayed as Najaf cemetery remains littered with weapons
August 19, 2004 Confederate soldiers descendant says goodbye
August 16, 2004 Site selected for Fort Riley cemetery
August 15, 2004 Mound Cemetery will come alive next month with the Civil War Seance
August 11, 2004 Cemetery fight haunts some U.S. soldiers
August 09, 2004 Remains of Vietnam MIA Returned to Family
August 04, 2004 Archaeologists probe Kentucky cemetery for 19th century war remains
August 02, 2004 1800s soldier buried again
July 21, 2004 Space programmes out, cemeteries in as war-time US budget axe falls
July 20, 2004 Military cemetery in Dixon receives final approval
July 17, 2004 Cemetery buries Vietnam messages and mementos
July 12, 2004 County to consecrate veterans cemetery
July 12, 2004 Army veteran Paul Dlubac purchases flagpoles for Simsbury Cemetery
July 09, 2004 Unearthed skeleton linked to 1812 war
July 04, 2004 World War II cemetery lies neglected in Kohima
July 03, 2004 Mother encourages media coverage of arrival of coffin
June 24, 2004 Marine Corps body bearers for Reagans casket
June 24, 2004 Tahoma National Cemetery to Expand
June 23, 2004 Digital bugle plays taps when GIs cant
June 17, 2004 Pagan Veterans Headstone Campaign
June 07, 2004 Tacoma native moved by sight of cemetery
June 01, 2004 Memorial Day ceremony at Bonaventure draws 100
May 30, 2004 Civil War-Era Union Soldiers Reburied
May 30, 2004 Tomb facts/Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
May 27, 2004 Civil War soldiers to be reinterred
May 26, 2004 Holy cemetary a killing field
May 24, 2004 Site Considered For Possible Veterans Cemetery
May 24, 2004 D-Day graves ready for ceremony
May 24, 2004 Bugles Across America
May 22, 2004 A Day in the Life: Remembering is true spirit of Memorial Day
 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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