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VA Grants $1.9 Million to Expand Maryland State
Veterans Cemetery
July 13, 2007
Continues Commitment to Honor Veterans Service
WASHINGTON – Continuing its mission of providing a final resting place
for Maryland veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has
announced the award of a $1.9 million grant to expand the Crownsville
Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
“With the expansion of this state veterans cemetery, VA ensures that
memorial benefits for Maryland veterans will be available for many more
years,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson.
The grant will pay for construction of 2,434 full-casket burial sites,
1,087
in-ground cremation burial sites, 1,056 columbarium niches, utilities,
landscaping and irrigation.
Maryland has four other VA-funded state cemeteries: the Cheltenham
Veterans Cemetery; the Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery in Hurlock; the
Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery in Owings Mills; and the Rocky Gap
Veterans Cemetery in Flintstone.
VA’s State Cemetery Grants Program complements VA’s 125 national
cemeteries across the country. The program helps states establish,
expand or improve state veterans cemeteries. To date, the VA program has
helped establish 66 veterans cemeteries in 35 states, Saipan and Guam,
which provided more than 22,000 burials in fiscal year 2006. Since the
program began in 1980, VA has awarded 156 grants totaling nearly $286
million.
Information on VA burial benefits can be obtained from national cemetery
offices, from the VA Web site on the Internet at
http://www.cem.va.gov or by
calling VA regional offices toll-free at 1-800-827-1000.
Information about Maryland’s veterans cemeteries can be obtained from
the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs at **
http://www.mdva.state.md.us/
** or by calling
410-923-6981.
** Indicates a link to a non- Department of Veterans Affairs Website. VA
does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of the linked
website.
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