Look for the Holiday barrel next to the jukebox for donations for our holiday food baskets. This year our food baskets will concentrate on needy families from our adopted unit, the 4/6 Air Cavalry along with needy Post and Auxiliary members. If you know anyone you feel needs a basket please contract me with their name, address, and phone number. Each name submitted will be investigated to determine need. Donations must be non-persiable items.
OCTOBER 2008
It's time to remember our Holiday baskets. This year the concentration will be on our military families. Post and Auxiliary members who request one will be investigated to determine need. If you know someone in TRUE need leave the name, address, and phone at the Post for me. There will be a barrel for your donations of non-perishable food items.
If you need help getting benefits or need help completing the forms you can contact me at:
Phone: (253)571-7678 after 6pm (if you get the voice mail please leave your name, phone number, and a brief message on what you need help with and I will call you back)
Email: Stanley_Hammon@comcast.net
1. Get copies of your complete Medical Records before being discharged.
2. Go to nearest VA Hospital for a complete phyisical.
3. File service-connected disability claim(s) with the VA
4. Keep copies 1 and 4 of all your discharge forms. They are needed should you file
for eligibilty of home loans, etc.
Gravesites at VA National Cemeteries cannot be reserved in advance. But VA encourages families of veterans who want to be burie in a VA national cemetery to discuss options and gather pertinent documents.
Here are other considerations when comtemplating burial in a VA national cemetery.
1. All U.S veterans who met minimum active duty service requirements and received other than dishonorable discharges are eligible.
2. Spouses and children of eligible veterans also may be eligibale for burial, even if they die before the veteran.
3. Reservists who die while on active dury or during training or qualify for retired pay also are eligible.
4. VA provides-at no expense to the family-a gravesite, a headstone or marker, a presidential memorial certificate, a U.S. Flag, perpetual care of that gravesite and the opening and closing of the grave.
5. Families pay for services provided by funeral directors and other related costs.
6. Formal funeral services are not held at national cemeteries but final committal services are performed in "committal shelters" away from the gravesite. Burials take place following the committal service.
7. National cemeteries do not usually conduct burials on weekends or federal holidays.
For more information, including how to establishy burial eligibility, contact the nearest VA regional office at 1-800-827-1000 or access www.cem.va.gov.
