[1] The AWMO cooperates with other organizations, at international, national, and local levels, to safeguard the future of War Memorials honoring Americans overseas in both their social and historical context.

[2][3] The U.S. federal government, via the American Battle Monuments Commission, cares for 24 overseas cemeteries and 25 memorials.

[4] These war memorials can be put in place by military units or veterans organizations to remember their fallen compatriots.

They can be constructed by the host nation as an official appreciation of the contributions of the United States of America and her citizens.

[4] Over one thousand American war dead lie in churchyards, foreign cemeteries, or in the fields where they fell in overseas locations throughout the world.