Vets' unclaimed remains get final honors
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Members of an Honor Guard salute during a funeral service at the Long Island National Cemetery, Pinelawn. (May 19, 2012)
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The remains of 57 veterans from Long Island -- whose ashes had sat unclaimed in area funeral homes for years -- were interred during a moving funeral service Saturday at Long Island National Cemetery, Pinelawn.
Organizers said the funeral was the largest ever of its kind in the United States -- and part of a federal initiative aimed at identifying all the unclaimed and abandoned remains of...
