An image of an eagle perched atop a gravestone was snapped at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by amateur photographer Frank Glick during the Spring of 2011:

This is amazing !!!!!!!! It doesn’t get any more patriotic than this…God Bless America…looks as if he’s watching over our heroes! Gives you goose bumps, that’s for sure!!!!! A picture from the Minneapolis Star/Tribune taken on a June morning at the Minneapolis National Cemetery!

The symbolism of such a setting seems particularly apropos because the Bald Eagle is the national bird of the United States and features prominently in Great Seal of the United States, and images of eagles are associated with the concepts of freedom and patriotism and are commonly used in military insignia.

An article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune described how Frank Glick came to take this striking photograph: