jalexson
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Joined: 11 May 2004
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Location: Hutchinson, Kansas
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 Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: Missing in America Project |
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We've all heard about the military personnel who were missing in action. There's another group of veterans we should be concerned about. Those who have died with no family or friends to insure a proper burial. Their cremated remains are sitting in hospitals or mortuaries.
A couple of Navy veterans have started the Missing in America Project to identify and bury these forgotten veterans.
| Missing in America Project wrote: | The initial focus of the MIA Project will be a massive, nation-wide effort to locate, identify and inter the unclaimed remains of forgotten veterans. This task will be executed through the combined, cooperative efforts of members of the American Legion, other volunteer service and veteran organizations, local Funeral Homes, State Funeral Commissions, State and National Veterans Administration Agencies, and the State and National Veterans Cemetery Administrations. Local, state and national laws must be followed in the identification, claiming process and proper interment of the unclaimed remains of forgotten veterans.
This will be a lengthy project and will require many man-hours to ensure that we have done our utmost to discover every forgotten veteran and procure each a dignified resting place. This will also be a labor of love, a task of redemption, for a debt of service that can never be repaid.
The second phase of the MIA Project will be the creation of a network of individuals working with local Funeral Homes, State, and National Agencies to ensure that, from now on, the cremated remains of any unclaimed veteran will be identified, claimed and interred in a timely manner. This will be an ongoing project and will most likely be a cooperative effort between many voluntary service organizations.
The MIA Project will be a long-term project, but not a time sensitive project. |
Missing in America Project Link to source added by Admin Lew
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