Q: What do teams (like the Packers) do with the commemorative championship caps and T-shirts when they don’t win the championship?
—Susan Patterson, Decatur
A: Aaron Popkey, director of public affairs for the Green Bay Packers, told Q&A on the News in an email that the NFL furnishes the items at the stadium after the game for the teams and takes care of the items that have been produced for the losing team.
At the Packers Pro Shop, “items are ordered, but not delivered until the team has won,” he wrote.
“From the league perspective, we donate the losing Super Bowl team products through a charity called Good360,” Ana Blinder, a communications coordinator for the NFL, told Q&A on the News in an email.
Q: Since the British Prime Minister just visited the United States, I wondered if there are any cemeteries in the U.S. dedicated to the British soldiers and sailors who fell during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812?
—Tom Cotton, Senoia
A: No U.S. cemetery is designated for those who fought in the Revolutionary War for Britain, writes Thomas B. Allen, author of books including "Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War," on historynet.com.
At the time, British Army regulations required that its dead simply be buried on the battlefield. He notes that at Mount Independence State Historic Site in Vermont, however, burial sites discovered by researchers “probably contain the remains” of British and other soldiers.
More than 100 British soldiers who died in the War of 1812 are buried at Garrison Cemetery, a National Historic Site in Cheektowaga, N.Y., according to the Buffalo News.
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