Unclaimed veterans’ ashes interred

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Unclaimed veterans’ ashes interred
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Nov 12, 2007 5:07:43 EST

BOISE, Idaho — The ashes of 13 veterans and three veterans’ spouses have been interred as part of an ongoing effort to provide final resting places for the unclaimed remains of American veterans.

The ceremony on Friday at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery is the second in Idaho for ashes recovered through the Missing in America Project, a nonprofit group whose mission is to find, identify and inter the unclaimed, cremated remains of American veterans.

The 16 urns were placed in the cemetery’s wall by representatives from different branches of the military.

“Now they’re surrounded by comrades and compassion,” Zach Rodriguez, cemetery director, told the Idaho Statesman.

The ashes included those of Dorothy S. Fisher, whose husband, Guy, served in the Army in World War I. Rodriguez said her ashes had been sitting in a nursing home since her death in 1990.

He said there are likely hundreds of unclaimed remains of veterans and their spouses in facilities around the state.


Article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/11/ap_veterans_ashes_071111/