American Battle Monuments Commission

"ABMC" redirects here. For other uses, see Archivio Biblioteca Museo Civico.

American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
Seal of the American Battle Monuments Commission
Agency overview
Formed1923 (1923)
TypeIndependent Agency of the United States Government
Headquarters2300 Clarendon Blvd.,
Suite 500
Arlington, Virginia 22201
38°53′25″N 77°05′12″W / 38.89028°N 77.08667°W / 38.89028; -77.08667
Motto"Time will not dim the glory of their deeds."
Employees472 (2023)[1]
Annual budget$73.1 million (2023)[1]
Agency executive
Websitewww.abmc.gov

The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is an independent agency of the United States government that administers, operates, and maintains permanent U.S. military cemeteries, memorials and monuments primarily outside the United States.[2]

There were 26 cemeteries and 31 memorials, monuments and markers under the care of the ABMC. There are more than 140,000 U.S. servicemen and servicewomen interred at the cemeteries, and more than 94,000 missing in action, or lost or buried at sea are memorialized on cemetery Walls of the Missing and on three memorials in the United States. The ABMC also maintains an online database of names associated with each site.[3]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference ar2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "About". American Battle Monuments Commission. Archived from the original on April 28, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  3. ^ "History". American Battle Monuments Commission. Archived from the original on March 13, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2015.