The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to start issuing urns and commemorative plaques to the families of deceased veterans this year, but the move has drawn criticism that it could block those ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged criticism of its plan to distribute memorial urns and plaques in a final rule published Friday -- namely, that accepting an urn might bar later burials ...

A pall-covered vault containing ashes of the deceased awaits burial before an All Souls’ Day rite of committal in 2019 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, Md. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese ...

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