Award for Maine State Cemetery

Week of September 29, 2008

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a $4.2 million grant to establish the Southern Maine Veterans Cemetery in Springvale, Maine. The 95-acre cemetery will be developed in phases, each designed to provide 10 years of burials. The first phase includes an initial 12-acre development that will provide 3,196 full-casket burial sites and 1,298 in-ground cremation burial sites. Information on VA burial benefits can be obtained from national cemetery offices, from the VA website at www.cem.va.gov or by calling VA regional offices toll-free at 1-800-827-1000. Information about Maine's state veterans' cemeteries is available by calling the Maine Department of Veterans Affairs at (207) 287-3481 or visiting the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery System website.

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