Sixteen Stars in Four Graves
By Colonel Thomas L. Constantino, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Retired), and Midshipman Matthew Constantino, U.S. Naval Academy
The simple two-foot-tall white stone is not much different from the more than 138,000 others that surround it at the Golden Gate National Cemetery a dozen miles from downtown San Francisco. Besides the inscription, five stars arrayed in a circle at its peak is the only distinction that separates the grave marker of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz from the others. Why the admiral is buried here is an interesting story.
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