Memorial Affairs

When families of a deceased Veteran start planning burials at Quantico National Cemetery in Virginia, one of the program support assistants they may meet is a Veteran who chose to work for VA to serve fellow Veterans. Damion Jacobs enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1993. His assignments included Camp Pendleton, California, where he deployed three times, including to shut down humanitarian operations in Mogadishu, Somalia. Jacobs also spent a year protecting the fence line at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an instructor at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California, and deployed to Iraq as an augmentee for the initial invasion in 2003. After his instructor assignment, Jacobs went back to Camp Pendleton, where he deployed twice. During his second deployment in 2006, an improvised explosive device detonated near Jacobs. He lost his leg below the knee.

The public can attend Veterans Day events at national cemeteries located throughout the U.S. from Nov. 8-11. Visitors can choose from the 41 different cemeteries who will host events.

Construction has begun on the development of an additional .82 acres at the Fayetteville National Cemetery and is scheduled for completion in late 2020.

The DFW National Cemetery provided a memorial service with full military funeral honors for three Veterans who donated their bodies for medical research.

With National Suicide Prevention Month coming to an end, we should remind ourselves that suicide prevention doesn’t end with the observation.

Fargo VA National Cemetery is now officially open and will serve as a burial ground for 30,000 Veterans and their families.

Former slave and Civil War Veteran Reddy Gray died on this day in 1922, when he was 79 years old. He was buried in Baltimore’s Loudon Park National Cemetery--the first VA burial site included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

On Wednesday, September 11, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, […]

The VA National Cemetery Administration celebrated its future leaders as 14 men and women graduated from the cemetery director intern program at NCA's NTC.

In section 42 of Beaufort National Cemetery is a modest […]

John Clark, Robert James, Willard Johnson, Paul Young.  These are […]

Edward Lyons recently learned he will join Sarasota National Cemetery in Florida after his graduation from the NCA Cemetery Director Internship Program