Veterans Legacy Memorial VLM

Veterans Legacy Memorial (VLM) is a public online memorial platform operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Cemetery Administration (NCA). It hosts searchable memorial pages for veterans and servicemembers interred in VA national cemeteries and other affiliated cemetery systems, where family, friends, and the public can view service details and leave tributes. It is a veterans-memorial and heritage resource, not a logistics system, and is listed here as an adjacent VA reference rather than a core logistics tool.

What it is

VLM is a digital memorial platform with individual profile pages for deceased veterans, populated from VA records with details such as service branch, dates of birth and death, rank, war period, decorations, and cemetery location. Visitors search by veteran name, with optional filters for service branch, year of death, or cemetery. The platform also supports an opt-in feature allowing living veterans with an approved VA pre-need burial eligibility determination to submit their own biography, images, and life-milestone records in advance.

Who operates it

The National Cemetery Administration, a component of the Department of Veterans Affairs, operates and maintains VLM.

Access

VLM is fully public with no login required to search records or view memorial pages. Submitting tributes, comments, images, or biographical/historical documents to a memorial page also does not require registration, though creating a free ID.me account enables extra features such as email alerts and liking other users' submissions. All public submissions are moderated before they post.

How logisticians use it

VLM has no logistics function. It is included in the directory as a cross-reference for VA burial and memorial benefits information, not as an operational tool for federal or military logisticians.

Related systems

Related to the VA's broader burial and memorial benefits programs administered by the National Cemetery Administration.