1. National Cemetery Overview FORT ROSECRANS & Miramar National Cemetery
SHARON K. LADNON
FORT ROSECRANS & Miramar National Cemetery
Nov 3, 2018

2. Burial Benefits Gravesite Opening and closing of the grave Grave liner
Perpetual care of the gravesite
Headstone, marker or medallion
U.S. Flag
Presidential Memorial Certificate

3. Eligibility Criteria Any Veteran who was discharged under conditions
Any member of the U.S. Armed Forces who dies
on active duty
Any Veteran who was discharged under conditions
other than dishonorable
National Guard members and Reservists with 20 years of
qualifying service, who are entitled to retired pay
Spouses and minor children
Certain eligible parents (Corey Shea Act)

4. Burial benefits available for spouses and dependents buried in a national cemetery include burial with the Veteran, perpetual care, and the spouse or dependents name and date of birth and death will be inscribed on the Veteran's headstone, at no cost to the family. Eligible spouses and dependents may be buried, even if they predecease the Veteran.
The Veterans family should make funeral or cremation arrangements with a funeral provider or cremation office. Any item or service obtained from a funeral home or cremation office will be at the family's expense.
Preparing in Advance Gravesites in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national cemeteries cannot be reserved in advance. You should advise your family of your wishes and where your discharge papers are kept. These papers are very important in establishing your eligibility. 
At the time of need your family would contact a funeral home who will assist them with making burial arrangements at the national cemetery.  You may wish to make pre-need arrangements with a funeral home.
Funeral Director can take care of everything for the family. They will do the Scheduling for the cemetery, and request for Military Honors, give you a Flag, and all permits needed for interment.

5. Things you will need to give to Funeral Home Director
Discharge/CA Burial Permit
What you must have on the day of service: CALIFORIA BURIAL PERMIT
You will get it from the funeral home or from the county (IF you are making and doing the arrangement)
California County Health Department
3851 Rosecrans Street, San Diego, CA 92186
(619)
You will bring the following:
Urn
Flag
Burial permit
You will need the veterans discharge papers or any military papers to show when they came into the military, and when they got out.
If you don’t have a discharge, any Military paperwork will help locate information that is needed for interment. Your funeral director can help you.

6. Military Honors is (DOD)
National Cemetery Scheduling Office open 7 day’s a week 7:00am to 6:00pm Central Standard Time
Followed by a call
Fax discharge to
Now serving all cemeteries except Puerto Rico
When a person passes away, the next of kin notifies the funeral home, they will contacts National Cemetery Scheduling Office.
They are open 362 days a year. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day.
Military Honors is (DOD)
US Army (800)
US Air Force (951)
US Navy (800)
US Marine (866)
US Coast Guard (619)

7. Day of Service staging area
Funeral Director
Family and Friends
You should arrive at the cemetery no more then 20 min period to your schedule service time. Everyone will be lead by the cemetery staff, to were the service will take place, this is a car precession. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CARS IN THE STAGGING AREA.

8. Committal Shelters Memorial Service without honors Memorial Service
All services and military honors, will be held at the committal shelters.
Conducting brief interment services at these shelters – rather than at the gravesite – enhances safety, facilitates the participation of family members who are sometimes elderly or frail; and allows the efficient scheduling of multiple interment services over the course of the day.
However, we will conduct grave-side services for service members killed in action, and we also arrange to set the headstone or marker the same day.
This is a photo of the shelter at Great Lakes National Cemetery, in Michigan.
Memorial Service
with Honors

9. Military Honors are provided by the Department of Defense
Your branch of service Military Honor Team will be standing by waiting on us to arrive

10. Columbaria (Niche, Wall)
Cremated remains above ground for the Veteran and the spouse.
Above Ground cremated burial site

11. Headstones, Markers and Medallions
In Memory Of
Buried at Sea
Body Donation
Niche Covers
Cremation Above ground graves site
Upright Headstone
In Ground Cremation Full Casket Burial
These are examples of government-furnished headstones, markers, niche covers.
Loved ones are also eligible for memorial markers and headstones, as you see here.
Ossuary
Scattered Cremation

12. Presidential Memorial Certificate
For active duty and
honorably discharged
Veterans
Inscribed with the
deceased’s name
Bears the Present
President’s signature
This will come after the interment by mail in about You will be able to order as many as you would like.
These engraved certificates are inscribed with the Veteran’s or service member’s name and bear the incumbent President’s signature.
This program was begun by President Kennedy and each subsequent president has carried on the tradition.
Eligibility for this benefit is slightly different from most of the others we provide, insofar as the must have been honorably discharged in order for his family to receive the certificate. In most other cases, the threshold is other than dishonorably discharged.
And that’s a perfect lead into my next slide, about eligibility.

13. Memorial Day and Wreaths Across America
Memorial Day, is our biggest event at the National cemetery. Dec, the 2nd Sat at 9:00am will be a wreath placed on every gravesite at all 131 National Cemetery.

14. National Gravesite Locator
National Gravesite Locator: You can locate your love one’s gravesite by our Website, at the cemetery on the kiosks, and a mobile devices.
cemetery kiosks
Available online
Mobile gravesite locator m.va.gov

15. You can print it out at home or at the cemetery grave locator.
Cemetery Map
314 acers of Land

16. Please keep in touch!
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17. Mission The National Cemetery Administration
honors veterans and their families
with a final resting places
from a grateful Nation for their service