Iowa
Unclaimed Central Iowa Veterans Get a Final Salute from Hundreds of People
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) – Twenty Veterans and 5 spouses who died in Iowa have been buried at Iowa Veterans Cemetery, their final resting place, KCCI’s Ben Kaplan reported. This salute was decades in the making because these veterans had been forgotten. Their cremated bodies hadn’t been claimed.
The Final Salute had spend the last few years giving sendoffs to forgotten veterans. This past Friday was the group’s largest yet. Hundreds of people went to the West Des Moines Church and the Iowa Veterans Ceremony to say goodbye.
“This kind of tugs at my heartstrings that these veterans were left on the shelf, and I feel they deserve to be laid to a final resting place, and I wanted to be part of it,” KCCI heard from one attendee.
“I’m just very grateful to be here and be part of this,” another attendee told KCCI.
A World War II veteran was also there to honor the veterans.
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