VA Awards Grant for New Jersey State Veterans Cemetery
September 9, 2005
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a grant
of $98,564 to the state of New Jersey for improvements to the Brigadier General William C. Doyle
Veterans Memorial
Cemetery in Wrightstown, the most active state cemetery in the nation.
"By partnering with state veterans cemeteries, VA is able to honor our commitment to the men
and women who have served in uniform," said the Honorable R. James Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans
Affairs. "This partnership provides a final resting place for New Jersey’s veterans that meets
the high standards of a national shrine."
The grant will pay 100 percent of the allowable costs for
installation of an underground drainage system in section "L" of the cemetery. This section typically floods
in periods of heavy rainfall and snow melt.
Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery provided
2,669 burials last fiscal year. It is the only veterans cemetery in New
Jersey with available space for casketed burials.
In fiscal year 2004, VA spent more than $1 billion in New Jersey to serve about 583,000
state veterans. VA operates medical centers in East
Orange and Lyons with outpatient clinics and Vet Centers
in several communities.
VA's State Cemetery Grants Program complements VA’s national cemeteries. The
grants have helped establish, expand or improve 61 state veterans cemeteries that provided more than 19,000 burials in fiscal
year 2004. Five additional state cemeteries are under construction. Since the program began in 1980, VA has
awarded more than 140 grants of more than $215 million to 32 states and Guam.
Information on VA burial benefits can be obtained from national cemetery offices, from
the VA Web site on the Internet at http://www.cem.va.gov or by calling VA regional offices toll-free at 1-800-827-1000.
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