New York State Division of Veterans Services
A Memorial Day ceremony held Monday at the Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Seneca County took on special significance because of action by a state committee last week.
That committee voted to recommend Sampson become New York’s first state veterans’ cemetery. New York is one of the few states that does not currently have a state veterans’ cemetery.
“There are nearly three-quarters of a million veterans living in New York and these brave men and women, who have defended our freedom and our values, deserve our eternal respect,” said Joel Evans, acting director for the New York State Division of Veterans’ Services.
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Robert Harding, The Citizen
The New York state flag flies near one section of the Sampson
Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Seneca County.
New York s first state veterans cemetery will be in Seneca County.
A nine-member selection committee voted Monday to designate Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery as a state veterans cemetery. The vote was unanimous in support of the site in the town of Romulus.Â
The state Division of Veterans Services recommended Sampson to the committee after receiving 11 responses to a request for information that was issued in February. The agency examined each of the proposed sites and released a report that endorsed Sampson to be the first state veterans cemetery.Â