TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - The Department of Veterans affairs held a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday at the Tallahassee National Cemetery.
It was all to celebrate the completion of the first phase of construction, which included a new administration building housing a public information center, maintenance buildings, two new committal shelters and honor guard building.
Retired United States Air Force Brigadier General, William Webb, was the keynote speaker.
"The current property right now is 250 acres and it will be here for veterans for the next one hundred years to serve them," said Raymond Miller, the director of the cemetery.
The cemetery will now have the added option of the columbarium niche for cremation, as well as in-ground cremation burial and traditional in-ground casket burial. The memorial wall to memorialize veterans who are not interred in another cemetery will be available as well.
