Keyword Details: Veteran Burial Benefits
A program of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs that provides a variety of burial benefits for eligible deceased veterans of peacetime or wartime service who have been discharged under conditions other than dishonorable and, in the case of some benefits, for their dependents. Included are burial in a national cemetery (opening and closing the grave, headstones and markers and perpetual care); headstones and markers for graves of veterans that are located anywhere in the world as well as niche markers for urns; headstones or markers for memorial plots in situations where the veteran's remains are not available for burial; Presidential Memorial Certificates; and burial flags which drape the veteran's coffin and are given to the next of kin or close associate following the funeral. Burial and funeral allowances are also available to certain veterans under specified conditions.
Veterans Memorial Cemetery
Interment Options:
The cemetery can inter caskets and cremation urns. Cremated remains can be interred either in a burial garden or in the columbarium wall. Through the state's Military Funeral Honors Program, the cemetery will provide military honors at veteran's interm...
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