From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Jun 20 17:53:36 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5KNrajb006781; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:53:36 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5KNrVeG005239 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:53:31 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k5KLHAFI022543 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:17:10 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k5KLHAWg022542 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:17:10 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k5KK6DFI022335 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:06:13 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k5KMgNdx031825 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:42:23 -0600 X-Envelope-From: R-AVINSON@worldnet.att.net Tue Jun 20 16:42:23 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5KMgNjb031816; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:42:23 -0600 Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.116]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5KMgKbm018170; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:42:20 -0600 Received: from Cleo (173.fortworth-09-10rs.tx.dial-access.att.net[12.75.3.173]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12) with SMTP id <20060620224213112005epdue>; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:42:16 +0000 Message-ID: <006201c694ba$c86862f0$ad034b0c@Cleo> From: "Al Vinson" To: "VINSON-L" , , "laouachita list" , , , , , , , , Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:42:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0625-3, 06/20/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] VA Adds Online Grave Locator [Screener note: the following is a government press release, and thus can be sent wherever, w/o fear of violating copyright...] FOR YOUR INFO VA Adds Maps to Online Gravesite Locator WASHINGTON (June 20, 2006)- The grave locations of more than three million veterans and dependents buried in national cemeteries can be found more easily now because the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has added maps of burial sections online that can be printed from home computers and at national cemetery kiosks. The latest improvement builds upon a service begun two years ago, in which a VA online feature permits family members to find the cemetery in which their loved one is buried. "This new map feature makes it easier for families, friends and researchers to find the exact location of a veteran's grave in all national cemeteries and some state veterans cemeteries," said the Honorable R. James Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. "It enhances VA's service at national cemeteries, already highly regarded, and our commitment to them as national shrines and historical treasures." The gravesite locator (http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov ), online since April 2004, helps veterans' families, former comrades-in-arms and others find the cemeteries where veterans are buried. With the new online feature, people enter a veteran's name to search, click on the "Buried At" (burial location) link and a map of the national cemetery is displayed, showing the section where the grave is located. In a related development, VA recently added to its database the cemeteries in which 1.9 million veterans were buried with VA grave markers. These are mostly private cemeteries. This addition brings the number of graves recorded in the locator to approximately five million. Those with maps are in VA national cemeteries and in state veterans cemeteries and Arlington National Cemetery if burials were since 1999. Beyond the five million records now available, VA continues to add approximately 1,000 new records to the database each day. VA also plans to add to its online database the exact locations of veterans' gravesites in the remaining state veterans cemeteries. In the midst of the largest cemetery expansion since the Civil War, VA operates 123 national cemeteries in 39 states and Puerto Rico and 33 soldiers' lots and monument sites. More than three million Americans, including veterans of every war and conflict - from the Revolutionary War to the Global War on Terror - are buried in VA's national cemeteries on more than 16,000 acres of land. Veterans with a discharge other than dishonorable, their spouses, and eligible dependent children may be buried in a national cemetery. Other burial benefits include a burial flag, Presidential Memorial Certificate, and a government headstone or marker - even if they are not buried in a national cemetery. Information on VA burial benefits can be obtained from national cemetery offices, from the Internet at http://www.cem.va.gov or by calling VA regional offices toll-free at 1 800-827-1000. Al "Do not dwell on the past, but do retain it For what you learn from the past creates your future!" P.S. " REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY !" " GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL ! "