When American Legion Post 1799 Post Commander Carlos Collat learned that 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 combat helicopter pilot and fixed wing reconnaissance pilot in consecutive tours of Vietnam and Desert Storm, and he was wounded in action…