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The VA estimated in a 2018 report to Congress that 'the remains of between 11,500 and 52,600 veterans may be unclaimed at funeral homes nationwide' Unclaimed remains of veterans are lost in VA ...
Their names — veterans spanning the Civil War to the Vietnam War — echoed through the nave in a long overdue tribute. Until now, the remains of 20 veterans and five spouses were unclaimed.
The Missing in America Project, a nonprofit founded in 2007, locates, identifies and inters the unclaimed remains of American veterans. Of the 20 veterans buried April 25, all of whom died in ...
Airman apprentice Donald Brown and fireman David Dickson, both United States Navy veterans who served during the Vietnam war died recently and neither had a family member to claim their remains.
The office was established in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, after over a hundred veterans passed away from the COVID-19 virus at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, Massachusetts. [3] In 2022, the Massachusetts state legislature passed a bill establishing EOVS as a cabinet level service in the executive government of the Commonwealth of ...
In 2019, the remains of four veterans — one from the Spanish American War, one from World War I and two from World War II — were buried. The veterans interred Friday were:
The report also determined that Massachusetts Secretary of Veteran Affairs Francisco Urena had failed to exercise proper oversight over the home to correct problems. [ 10 ] [ 9 ] The report found that in late March, the home combined a floor of veterans with COVID-19 with a floor of veterans who did not have COVID-19, violating "a basic tenet ...
VA currently has about 8.4 million veterans enrolled in its health care program. Of the remaining roughly 13 million living veterans, CBO estimates that about 8 million qualify to enroll in VA's health care program but have not enrolled. VA currently spends about $44 billion providing health care services to veterans, or about $5,200 per enrollee.