The Indiantown Gap National Cemetery is located in Annville, Pennsylvania. If you’re unfamiliar with the area, Annville is approximately 50 minutes from the Capital City, Harrisburg or if you’re traveling from Philadelphia, it’s about a 3 hour car ride north.
Our family is “military proud” and we do everything that we can to support our military and honor our veterans. We travel all over the state to attend memorial services, to visit monuments & memorials, attend veteran events, etc. We believe that its important to show our support and respect, to all veterans past, present, and future.
With that said, we also feel its important to teach all of the kids in our family that freedom isn’t free. Freedom comes with a cost and that cost is paid by our vet, and their families. Whenever possible, we take the kids out with us for an educational experience.
Recently we took the grandchildren up to Indiantown Gap National Cemetery and talked with them about our country’s history, our veterans, and how they could honor their memories. We walked around the cemetery and spent some time visiting grave sites, veteran memorial’s and the few monuments that are located nearby.
Throughout the year Indiantown Gap National Cemetery and the Pennsylvania National Guard Museum (located nearby) host various events and activities. As a family, we really enjoy attending them as we can. We always learn something new and it always makes us feel good to honor our veterans and heroes.
Today we wanted to share a few photographs with all of you from our most recent visit. If you’re ever in the area…I highly recommend that you stop in for a visit. It’s the perfect place to remember and honor our veterans!
These places are always moving for me to attend. It is good to instill that feeling in our kids when they are young.
What a nice way to honor veterans and let kids learn the true cost of freedom. I didn’t know about this place but I’d like to visit.
What a beautiful place. Is that one still accepting vets or is it a ‘full’ one? We have a few in our state dedicated to vets who died in line of duty or where 100 percent disabled. I always find these places moving and humbling to be amongst heroes.
Yes, they’re still accepting.