The third expansion in the cemetery’s 102-year history will add above- and below-ground spaces for about 100,000 more veterans and eligible family members.
Crews work on new columbaria at Fort Sam National Cemetery. Expansion at the cemetery through mid-2025 will allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to meet expected burial needs in San Antonio for the next 30 years, the cemetery’s acting director says.When volunteers placed U.S. flags at more than 130,000 gravesites this weekend at, they also saw thousands of neatly placed crypts dug into the 330-acre grounds.
Because Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston and its national cemetery are essentially landlocked, using lawn crypts with two caskets stacked on top of each other expands capacity within the existing acreage. The new crypts will eventually be covered with dirt and grass before the project is finished.
Managing construction with 18 to 22 interments a day, and sometimes up to 25, can be challenging, according to Wright. The cemetery staff works with the construction crews to adjust operations that could interfere with ceremonies or interments.
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