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Of Interest
to Veterans
Effective October 16r 1961, the Secretary of the Army approved the recommendation that one grave site be assigned in Arlington National Cemetery, wherever feasible, for the multiple interment of any member or former member of the armed forces. This policy became necessary because of the increase since the close of World War II of the number of persons legally eligible for burial in national cemeteries. The Army has been studying ways of prolonging by administrative measures the availability of space in Arlington Cemetery and other national cemeteries on an individual basis as the need arises.
The application of policy of interment in one grave site of any member, or , former member, of the armed forces whose last active service terminated honorably, his spouse and his eligible children would prolong the life of South ! Post addition at Arlington until | 1988.
The use of the policy of two adjoining side by side grave sites to all sections of Arlington would only last about five years. The cemetery staff reports no opposition in principle to the burial of an entire family unit in a single grave.
There is no charge for a burial site in a national cemetery, and services incident to interment are performed free of cost to relatives or friends by cemetery labor.
For burial in Arlington Cemetery, ‘contact should be made with “Officer in Charge, Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Virginia”.
Edward TVt.' Mathews, of the
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