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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A large headstone in a graveyard reads “Brevet Lt. Colonel Alonzo H. Cushing.” Other headstones are spaced out around it.

Cushing Headstone

Army 1st Lt. Alonzo Cushing is buried at West Point Cemetery, N.Y.

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