Thousands Of Military Veterans Remains Stored On Shelves And Forgotten

Thousands of military veterans remains stored on shelves and forgotten.
 
Dec. 8, 2011 - PRLog -- “You served your country through a war, or through peacetime.  You expected to receive a military burial, recognition by our government of your commitment to our great country.  You expected to have honor and respect paid to you as a result of your service to our great country.  Instead, you reside on a shelf in a mortuary or a storage facility at a crematorium.” This is a direct quote from the Missing In America Project website http://www.miap.us/index.htm, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to locating, identifying and interring the unclaimed remains of forgotten veterans. Sadly it is estimated that there may be 10 to 15,000 unclaimed cremains of Veterans at funeral homes right now.

Bootstrap America declares it is a disgrace that these brave men and women who served our country have been forgotten about on the shelves of various institutions for years in and in some cases for more than a century.  In fact, MIAP states that some of the remains have been stored away since the 1890s.

Bootstrap America is thankful to the MIA Project for their efforts in righting this gross injustice.  According to this organization, “this will be a lengthy project and will require many man-hours to ensure that we have done our utmost to discover every forgotten veteran and procure each a dignified resting place. This will also be a labor of love, a task of redemption, for a debt of service that can never be repaid. (And once this effort is completed, the) second phase of the MIA Project will be the creation of a network of individuals working with local Funeral Homes, State, and National Agencies to ensure that, from now on, the cremated remains of any unclaimed veteran will be identified, claimed and interred in a timely manner. This will be an ongoing project and will most likely be a cooperative effort between many voluntary service organizations.” http://www.miap.us/index.htm.

To read the entire article go to bootstrapamerica.net.
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