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Are FReepers aware of the program “No Vet Dies Alone”?

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Where were the families? Granted some Vets may have outlive family or had none. The new one we got in 2011 out at John Sevier looked like they were active. Dad was one of the first 50 or so buried there I think and there are a lot more graves now. I think they average two or three burials a day which is busy.

As far as I know outside of private organizations vets do not get a free service. The coffin, vault, and funeral home service are family or vets responsibility. You have to show the funeral home director or the cemetery supervisor proof of service usually meaning DD-214 or a VA ID card for a burial plot. It was that way in 1981 when I worked student work study out at the one on Tyson ST.

But yes there has been a decline in a lot of things including TAPS for the deceased especially MOH awarded.