MADISON COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF) – Construction is underway on a cemetery designed to give North Alabama veterans a place to be laid to rest closer to home.
Officials said North Alabama veterans have lacked access to burial benefits for years.
“So many years ago, the National Cemetery Administration identified this area as being a shortfall for veteran burial benefits. And for many years we knew this. And this federal money was not available for constructing new cemeteries,” said Jeffery Newton, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs…