After graduating from high school in 1968, Jacky Lyn Branstetter joined the Navy during the height of the Vietnam War.
Branstetter had no family when he passed away earlier this year in the Community Living Center of the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas.
No veteran forgotten
“Fortunately, we have a system in place for those situations,” said Dole VA’s Decedent Affairs Program Specialist Linda Rivera.
It’s called the Final Mile — a protocol that is activated when a veteran passes with no known next of kin…