U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan is in a better position to help keep federal funding for a veterans cemetery in Sarasota. Although President Bush has proposed spending $27.8 million to build the long ...

The Sarasota National Cemetery is more than 18,000 wreaths short ... "The drivers are typically all veterans, and they spend their own money on fuel, and it's their own time.

The veterans who were buried in a Sarasota cemetery had no known family members. They were laid to rest on Thursday in a special ceremony – the largest in our area in years. The remains of 17 ...

WASHINGTON -- Sarasota County would get a new veterans cemetery within four years under legislation that advanced in the Senate on Tuesday. The Veterans Affairs Committee passed a bill authorizing ...

Each year, Wreaths Across America volunteers decorate veterans graves at Sarasota National Cemetery. The Patterson Foundation’s one-time gift of $50,000 helps that tradition continue this year ...

Sarasota National Cemetery is at 9810 State Road 72 ... Forty-six groups raise funds year-round to purchase the veterans remembrance wreaths. Sponsorships can be purchased at https ...

About 13,500 Christmas wreaths will be placed on veterans’ tombstones at the Sarasota National Cemetery. Yet until two days ago, Sarasota was short 1,500 wreaths, but the community stepped up to ...

the 295-acre Sarasota National Cemetery has served as the final resting place for thousands of fallen veterans since it opened to the public in 2009. Funerals are still regularly held at the ...

His casket was pulled by horses into Sarasota National Cemetery. “I’m back and some of them don’t make it back,” said Marine Jorge Olazabal. Veterans like Olazabal felt a need to be here.