Nonprofit plans to honor 33 at Arizona Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery
Oct 18, 2018, 8:59 AM
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PHOENIX — A nonprofit group dedicated to finding and interring unclaimed remains of American veterans will honor 33 who served their country in a ceremony Saturday outside Tucson.
The Missing in America Project’s southern Arizona chapter will host the full-honor service Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon at the state Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery in Marana.
The ceremony will include a missing-man formation flyover by former military pilots known as the Arizona Scorpions.
The veterans to be interred were in the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines.
Missing in American Project has identified the cremains of 4,038 veterans and interred 3,688.
The group said on its website it provided “honor and respect to those who have served this country by securing a final resting place for these forgotten heroes.”
The cemetery and the nonprofit, with help from the Arizona Department of Veteran Services, hosted a similar ceremony in April, when 30 homeless, unclaimed or indigent veterans were interred.
Another ceremony for four veterans was scheduled Nov. 4 at the National Memorial Cemetery in Prescott.