Kentucky Department of
Veterans Affairs

Pearl Harbor Remembrance



On Wednesday, Dec. 7, KVCNE held a ceremony in remembrance of the 75th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Read more here.

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Wreath Laying

On May 30, the East Carter Junior ROTC posted the colors and performed the wreath-laying ceremony. Army Veteran and 98th District State Representative Lew Nicholl was the guest speaker. Lauren Beth Dickerson sang the National Anthem.


More pictures here.

Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Northeast is located on approximately 75 acres on East Park Drive off Highway 67 and Industrial Parkway off I-64 in Greenup County, approximately one half-mile north of U.S. Highway 64 at the Boyd, Carter and Greenup County border. It opened September 10, 2010 . As of May 31, 2013, it has interred 271 people, including 237 veterans, 34 dependents and 2 service members killed in action.

   

From the Ashland Daily Independent: 
 

"KVCNE Staff Puts Respect at Top of Priority List"

Memorial Rose Garden

According to Kentucky law, the individual must be a Kentucky veteran for burial at one of the state veteran cemeteries.  Examples include: born in KY, served at one of the U.S. military installations in KY, lived in KY, home of record in KY.

Hours of Operation

Kentucky's State Veterans Cemeteries are open to the public 24 hours, seven days a week.  Normal business hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, not including state holidays.  Interments take place on non-holiday weekdays only.  Saturdays, Sundays and holidays are reserved for families and loved ones of those interred to visit in peace and quiet.

Total interment services include:

• Furnishing grave or columbarium space
• Opening and closing the grave
• Providing the interment site with perpetual care
• Supplying a suitable marker or headstone
• Furnishing an optional concrete grave liner for casketed burials