Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

2005 | Best Cemetery

To call one cemetery "best" risks glibness. How to rank such solemn grounds? Stand, though, at the easternmost summit of hilly Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery any time between dawn and dusk, and you will be hard-pressed to find the experience anything but incomparable. There, with your back to a placid, verdant stretch of the Mississippi, you see rolling out below you green fields with thousands upon thousands of identical headstones, modest and white, many so old that their... More »