Unaccomapnied veteran funeral highlights the need for upcoming expansion of Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery

Every year hundreds of veterans are buried at the veterans cemetery in Killeen and some of them don’t have family members ...
KSAT

Holiday wreaths to honor 162,000 veterans’ graves at Fort Sam Houston

Local organizers are rallying the community to honor 182,000 veterans’ graves with remembrance wreaths at Fort Sam Houston ...

D-Day, Pearl Harbor Texans’ remains return home 80 years after being KIA

Two Texas heroes were buried more than 80 years after they were killed in action on two of the most consequential dates in ...
KSAT

Texas nonprofit brings tradition of placing roses on graves at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery

SAN ANTONIO – A group of volunteers helped a Texas-based nonprofit on Monday morning at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery with dozens of roses in each hand, working to place them on as many graves as ...
Yahoo

VA awards millions for expansion of Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery

WASHINGTON / KILLEEN, Texas (FOX 44) – The Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration (NCA) has announced the awarding of a grant of up to $12,826,928 to the state of Texas for ...
Stars and Stripes

Veterans commemorated with urn or plaque would get VA burial option under new bill

WASHINGTON — Families who choose to receive an urn or commemorative plaque on behalf of a deceased veteran forfeit the right to bury that veteran in a national cemetery under a new Department of ...
KCBD

Date announced for opening of West Texas State Veterans Cemetery

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - “Mark your calendar folks, the 12th of December.” That will be the date more than 1,200 pre-registered veterans and family members will have their final resting place. West ...