The National Cemetery Administration says the number of military vets taking advantage of death-related benefits should be much higher. MORE ⬇️
In 2022, nearly 150,000 eligible veterans and family members were interred in national cemeteries, but the head of the National Cemetery Administration says the number of military vets taking advantage of free plots, headstones and other death-related benefits should be much higher.
Villalobos visits Patino's gravesite in Riverside, California often. Sometimes he meets Patino's mother there, where he first met her on the day of her son's burial. "It can be difficult sometimes, to see someone lose a loved one, and we never forget the loved ones I lost," said Edd Holmes, who digs graves at Riverside National Cemetery. "I lost my mother. So when I see somebody lose their mother, you know, it's something I can relate to, and it still hurts. So when they're in pain, we're in pain. You know, we feel the same way.
"About half of all Veterans are eligible for VA health care. About a third of all veterans actively use VA health care. 85% of eligible Veterans use their GI Bill benefits, either themselves, or by transferring those benefits to a family member. But only 15% of all Veterans who die each year are interred in a VA national cemetery. Another 5% are interred in a VA-funded state, territorial or tribal cemetery," Quinn said in a media roundtable earlier this year.
On a sunny spring day in Riverside, Villalobos oversaw the special interment of Lawrence Molina, an unhoused veteran who was once a member of an underwater demolition team and later the Navy SEALs.
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