| | The First Khanda Appears on a Headstone at Arlington National Cemetery :: SikhNN :: The Next Generation of News and Views |
 | | Because the Khanda was not an approved symbol at the time, the family asked Gurdarshan Singh, a local granthee who performed the last rights, to write an official letter to request a Khanda. |
 | | At the burial ceremony, a Liaison Officer asked the family about selecting a religious symbol for the headstone. |
 | | “ We did a lot of running around.” The DVA required a letter request from a parent of Uday Singh and letter from a Sikh ‘church’ stating that the Khanda is an official Sikh symbol. |
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