Maps added to veterans' graves locator.The grave locations of more than 3 million veterans and dependents buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. in national cemeteries can be found more easily now because the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. has added maps of burial burial, disposal of a corpse in a grave or tomb. The first evidence of deliberate burial was found in European caves of the Paleolithic period. Prehistoric discoveries include both individual and communal burials, the latter indicating that pits or ossuaries were sections online that can be printed from home computers and at national cemetery kiosks. The gravesite grave·site n. A place used for graves or a grave. 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 then 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. |
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