The Old Guard Monument Fund


	News Room Options News Press Releases Media Statements Calendar With their 1903 Springfield rifles, with bayonets fixed, The Old Guard’s U.S. Army Drill Team performs their daring routines to the amazement of audiences raging from school children to visiting heads of state		News The following press release was issued by The Old Guard Monument Foundation in recognition of the death of Honorary Board Member Mrs. Betty Ford. July 9, 2011 Association of the United States Army: Old Guard Monument Foundation sponsors wreath ceremony at Tomb of the Unknowns February 2, 2011 Members of the Board of Directors and sponsors of The Old Guard Monument Foundation (OGMF) joined 60 friends and families Dec. 11 to present a wreath to the nation’s fallen heroes at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. (more...) Washington Post: A Tomb Guard is laid to rest Thursday, November 18, 2010 By T. Rees Shapiro I had the honor yesterday of attending the burial of Army Staff Sergeant Adam L. Dickmyer, who was killed in Afghanistan on Oct. 28 by a makeshift bomb. (more...) Click here to see a video of Sgt. Dickmyer at the Tomb of the Unknowns. Washington Post: A salute to Arlington Cemetery's Old Guard Saturday, August 7, 2010 I hope that the continuing revelations from Arlington National Cemetery ["At Arlington Cemetery, years of problems," front page, July 26] do not lead people to associate the problems with soldiers of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment, popularly known as the Old Guard.... (more...)