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Civil War Burial
An urn holding the remains of Civil War veteran Peter Knapp sit with an American flag during his military funeral at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Ore., Friday, April 13, 2012. Peter Knapp is the first Civil War veteran buried at Willamette National Cemetery, Oregon's largest veterans' cemetery. His ashes had been sitting on a shelf at the Portland Crematorium since 1924.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)