New VA videos on Youtube

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Jeff Berry

The Veterans Affairs Administration has posted four videos detailing the burial benefits all veterans have with the National VA cemeteries. The four videos include burial and cremation with or without military honors. Very Nice videos on Youtube and very nice shots of at least two different coaches. Here is the link to the Casket Burial with Military Honors

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0unio4S3dg[/ame]
 
They fail to mention that Veteran's benefits only includes a grave, opening/closing, a grave liner, and a marker. The casket, prep work, and services are a cost the family has to pay for. :confused:
 
Oh yes the VA has discovered U tub also. they have just constructed the first VA cementer on a reservation here in central SD. they won't treat you but they will bury you. the one here in Hot Spring has been close for interments for a long time now. if you ever get to attend services at one there a will reversed event. here anyway at Sturges the pillion is enclosed they mark the grave with a pole and red flag so you can see were the grave is to be, when you go in and out. you turn over the remains at the pavilion and it's put in place some time after. they are place 3 in a hole. so you and your spouse can be placed in the same grave but your going to share it with another service person. now I'm not saying things are not done in a respectful manner. but you need to do 2 or 3 a day it requires some organization. here the funerals are normal conducted at home and the grave site is with family. but a lot of the time it just the director that brings the body out. sometimes at a great distance. Tony"s Dad was telling us he has taken people out there a number of times. it a 400 mile trip one way. but even alone the man is still given the same ceremony as if he had a couple hundred there.
 
The black Lincoln hearse is the 2007 Eagle Lincoln Ultimate Elite with oval windows from Willwerscheid Funeral Home / Spielman Mortuary in St. Paul, MN...the firm I had been with for 15 years. Now that I see the video, I remember the VA asking if they could film one of our graveside services one day a couple years ago. As much as I'm pleased to see they featured a limousine-style hearse prominently in the film, it's too bad they didn't have more footage of our coach, especially during the unloading of the casket. They could have shown the beautiful presentation that an electric table - and pallbearers - make.
 
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