Department of Veterans Affairs' burial allowances are cash allowances paid to an eligible veteran's family to help defray burial and funeral costs. VA will pay a different amount depending on ...

Sunlight streamed through stained glass windows as hundreds stood in the West Des Moines ... resting place at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Adel. Chedester, a Tennessee native who moved to Des ...

George and Herbert Brousseau will be honored with full military honors. The event also honors all WWII veterans and includes a program, documentary, brick laying and 21-gun salute.

In its 71st year in 2024, the annual Veterans Day observance at Arlington National Cemetery begins at 11:11 a.m. each November 11. The ceremony commences with a wreath laying at the Tomb of the ...

That includes Joseph Chedester, a Tennessee ... 27, at West Des Moines Christian Church, with a funeral service at 11. Following a procession to the Iowa Veterans Cemetery, the cremated remains ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration said Thursday it has awarded a grant of up to $2,777,421 to the state of Montana to expand the Montana State Veterans Cemetery ...

East Texas is home to over 32,000 “unserved” veterans. Under federal guidelines, you are “unserved” if you live more than 75 miles away from a national or state cemetery. The nearest national cemetery ...

Chair for Friends of the Cemetery. On the grounds are 22,000 unmarked graves. The few with headstones date back to the 1860s. "Just over 200 veterans were laid to rest here," Weir said.

More than 130 East Tennessee women veterans ... the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery and several others. It has previously brought groups of veterans from the Korean War, World ...

No man left behind was the central theme of a ceremony on Wednesday at the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown ... Dickinson died in West Haven in 1998 at the age of 80., and SP5(T) Richard ...

They gathered by the hundreds... first at West Des Moines Christian Church.. and then the Iowa Veterans Cemetery... to salute the heroes in these hand crafted urns. Unclaimed Veterans ...

Veterans visited the World War II, Korean and Vietnam War memorials and Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C., as well as making a stop at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stoystown, ...