Overview

To help and to donate to the WTC effort please go to www.september11fund.org

For Current News and Special Information for Seniors and Others please click on the following web link for emergency and other information: www.seniors.gov/america-responds.html

We handled the funeral for Officers Principe and DeCross Funeral in Braintree, MA that had over 3,000 officers attending. We also have handled Veteran's funerals with very large attendance.

Here are some important answers to your Veteran's questions including related web sites that give you answers from the U.S. government.

Home of Heroes.com
For informjavascript:onOK('pgcntform')ation on awards given to U.S. servicepeople in time of war please read information on medals at home of heroes.com or homeofheroes.com

Establishing Veteran Eligibility
To establish veteran eligibility you can have us obtain your DD 214 Form which is the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty. For veteran's benefits you must have any status other than dishonorable discharge. For more information, download the form in Acrobat PDF format. This form can be sent to:

Taps
If you are a Veteran with an honorable discharge we can arrange for the military to provide Taps for you at the graveside and for a flag for your family to have. More information on Veteran's flags can be seen at: http://www.cem.va.gov/bflags.htm.

Presidential Memorial Certificate
We can also write to the government and obtain a Presidential Memorial Certificate for you and your family. We submit both a death certificate and a copy of your honorable discharge to:

To read more about the Certificate you may go to http://www.cem.va.gov/pmc.htm.

Honor Guards
We are able to arrange for honor guards for Veteran's funerals. All honorably discharged Veterans may be buried in a National Cemetery for no cemetery cost and the National Cemetery in Bourne, Mass. is the local one that our firm normally uses.

Cemetaries
For a listing of National Cemeteries and U.S. Memorial Events please see: www.cem.va.gov.

Grave Marker
If you need a Veteran's grave marker for the cemetery you chose to be buried in you can write to:

More grave marker information can be seen at http://www.cem.va.gov/hmorder.htm

Disabled Veterans
Disabled Veteran's families may apply for further monetary awards if the Veteran passed away in a Veteran's hospital or if the Veteran was currently on Veteran's disability payments before death.

What to do about Social Security after a death occurs
http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/deathbenefits.htm
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/onlineservices/

National Veteran's Cemetery please visit:
www.arlington-cemetery.org

State Veteran's Cemetery please visit:
www.cem.va.gov/cem/scg/lsvc.asp

To apply for a headstone or marker please visit:
www.va.gov/vaforms/va/pdf/VA40-1330.pdf

For traumatically injured vet's life insurance visit:
www.insurance.va.gov/sgliSite/TSGLI/TSGLI.htm

Veteran's Transitional Business Opportunities please visit:
www.dmdc.osd.mil/ot

Links:
     For military history, locator, and chat:
     National Cemetery
     Veterans Services
     National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
     Facilities in Massachusetts

For additional helpful information and links please go to the Links page on this Web site.