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Veterans Advisory Committee <br /> Minutes May 28,2019 <br /> Page 10 <br /> Brittany Iyo: So he's saying, before, I'm not sure how long before, the VA used to <br /> provide urn vaults for any urns that were being buried in the ground. It's just an <br /> individual vault that you put in the ground and place the urn in, it has a plastic cover. <br /> Hanato: It's buried. <br /> Iyo: Right now, the VA provides casket vaults for all casket burials at Veterans <br /> Cemeteries. VA sends the vaults to us, whenever there's a casket burial, our staff installs <br /> it, lowers the casket into the vault, cover it with the vault covering and then they bury it. <br /> Minoru is saying, a long time ago the VA used to provide urn vaults for urn in-ground <br /> burials. I'm not sure when it stopped, when I started in 2015 we didn't have it. We're <br /> only given the caskets vaults. <br /> Chair Doolittle: Then he's saying they re-excavate those to put other urns in the same <br /> Iyo: So at WHVC and other Veterans Cemetery in the state the Veeteeran is allowed one <br /> plot and the spouse has to be interred in the same plot, unless the spouse is a Veteran then <br /> they get their own plot. If one person is buried in the plot, the Veteran or the Spouse, <br /> whoever passes away second, would be buried into that same plot. Our staff would have <br /> to dig a hole and put the remains into the same plot. <br /> Doolittle: Minoru, what are you asking us to do? <br /> Hanato: We have to let the Mayor know we need ground urn vaults because when they <br /> re-dig the same grave, urn grave, sometimes they damage the urn, whereas you have the <br /> vault, you take off the top sod and the cover for the vault. Also, the urn does not <br /> deteriorate. <br /> Sheridan: Is this something the VA provides? <br /> Iyo: He (Hanato) said the VA used to provide urn vaults. <br /> Hanato: The VA supposed to cover any container for the casket or urn whether it's <br /> columbaria or ground burial. <br /> Sueoka: You're saying that someone you know tried to order the urn vault and the VA <br /> didn't pay for it? <br /> Iyo: I think he's saying, how the VA provides casket vaults for every burial, so they just <br /> send us a bunch when we're running low they send us another bunch so that we always <br /> have it on hand whenever there's a new burial. They [VA] used to provide urn vaults but <br /> no longer do for whatever reason. <br /> Sueoka: Maybe we didn't put in another request for it. <br />