Maryland veterans’ cemetery improvements funded

Daily Record Staff//October 13, 2011//

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Maryland a $4.6 million grant to expand and improve the Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery in Owings Mills.

U.S. Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin, both Democrats, said the grant will fund construction of 462 cremains gravesites (cremains are what remains after a body is cremated), a new administration building, a new maintenance facility and supporting infrastructure.

The grant will cover 100 percent of allowable costs associated with the project.

Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery is the most active of Maryland’s five veterans’ cemeteries, conducting more than 1,225 burials a year.

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