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Veterans’ group to bury remains left at the Vietnam Wall

The National Park Service has reached an agreement with a nonprofit veterans’ organization to take custody of cremated remains left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and bury them with honors in a private in-ground vault in Virginia.

The Missing in America Project will take possession of the 80 sets of cremains that have been left at the memorial over the years, as well as any future cremains, the Park Service said in a statement.

They will be inurned with full military honors at an in-ground vault at a private cemetery in Manassas, Va.

The purpose of the MIA Project is to locate, identify, and inter with dignity unclaimed cremated remains of American veterans, according to the organization’s website.

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Leaving mementos at the memorial’s Wall has been a tradition since the polished stone landmark bearing the names of the 58,000 Vietnam War dead was dedicated in 1982.

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