{"id":12993,"date":"2009-05-25T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fact_sheet_facts_about_vetrans_affairs_national_cemeteries\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:11:06","slug":"fact_sheet_facts_about_vetrans_affairs_national_cemeteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12993","title":{"rendered":"Fact Sheet: Facts about Veteran&#39;s Affair&#39;s National Cemeteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Volunteers donated approximately 482,000 hours at national cemeteries during 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;More than 7.7 million people visited VA national cemeteries in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;With laws passed in 1999 and 2003, Congress directed VA to establish 12 new national cemeteries.  Nine of them have opened in these states: Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, California and Florida.  The final three, Alabama National Cemetery, near Birmingham; Bakersfield National Cemetery, California; and Washington National Crossing National Cemetery, near Philadelphia, will open during 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.va.gov\/opa\/fact\/ncafacts.asp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Volunteers donated approximately 482,000 hours at national cemeteries during 2008. &#8211;More than 7.7 million people visited VA national cemeteries in 2008. &#8211;With laws passed in 1999 and 2003, Congress directed VA to establish 12 new national cemeteries. Nine of them<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12993\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,438,106,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-death-burial-funerals","category-military-armed-forces","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}