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New cemetery the focus for some on this Veterans Day

November 11, 2008 By admin

Monument at Iowa Veteran's Cemetery. The focus of some Iowans this Veteran’s Day will be on the new Iowa Veterans Cemetery near Winterset.

Ground was broken for the cemetery on Veteran’s Day in 2006 and the site was dedicated on July third of this year. Cemetery director Steve Young says 145 veterans and their spouses have been buried there since the dedication.

Young says number of daily visitors has continued to be steady, and the common thing they hear is that it’s not a down thing to go to the cemetery, but it is a place of comfort comparable to Arlington and other national cemeteries.

Young says over 1,800 people have applied to be buried at the cemetery — which includes people from three-quarters of Iowa’s counties and 11 states. Young says several families have disinterred loved ones from other cemeteries to move them to the Iowa Veterans Cemetery.

Young says the site has changed since the dedication. He says the grounds continue to be a work in progress, as they expedited the contraction process to get things ready for the dedication. Young says the grounds are a lot greener now than they were at the dedication. Young says they get lots of people who stop by after seeing the sign for the cemetery along the interstate.

You can call for more information at: 515-996-9048 or go on-line to the Iowa Veterans Cemetery  website. Young says they will fly 21 burial flags that draped the caskets of veterans and were donated along their avenue of flags this Veteran’s Day. Each gravesite will also be decorated with American flags.

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