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Some veterans' cemeteries running out of burial space.
Byline: Brian Burnes
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. _ The funeral for Saul Lee Davis, 69, Army veteran of the Korean War, includes both God and country. A minister leads Davis' coffin into a committal shelter at Leavenworth National Cemetery. A carillon tolls. Taps is played. A three-man honors detail fires its rifle volleys.
All around is the buttoned-down and squared-away signature of a national veterans cemetery: hundreds of rows of regulation headstones, standing as if at attention.
"It was really important to me that he be buried here," Davis' widow, Frances, said after the recent service. "He served his country, and I thought it was proper."
On this day, in 128 acres of the Leavenworth cemetery, there is a place for Saul Lee Davis, but at some federal veterans cemeteries, there is only so much sacred ground to go around.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs operates 120 national cemeteries across the country. Of those, 61 are open to both casketed and cremated interments, such as at Leavenworth National Cemetery, adjacent to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medical Center.
Of the remaining 59 cemeteries, 26 are open to cremated remains and perhaps casketed remains in the gravesites of previously interred family members.
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