State Department of Veterans Affairs Cemetery Bureau Chief Gavin Sandvig says they don’t see many funerals now for World War Two veterans at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery near Van Meter. He says there are indications at other facilities that there are not many of World War Two veterans still living here.
Sandvig says there are more still more living veterans here than he expected.
Sandvig says the number of burials for veterans of the Korean war has also been dropping.
Sandvig says veterans who qualify do get burial benefits at the cemetery.
He says they are granite headstones that are also provided by the V-A. And if the spouse is buried with the veteran, their inscription goes on that headstone as well.
