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• FEES AT NH STATE VETERANS CEMETERY (NHSVC)
• VETERANS SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS - NEW HAMPSHIRE
• Pease Greeters
• SUPPORT OUR TROOPS
• Military Awards and Decorations
• Remember These Heroes  (UPDATED 2/20/10)
• The 2009 Federal Benefits Book for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors
• New Hampshire State Veterans Advisory Committee (SVAC) Biannual Report for November 2009
• Support The Troops - Information For The Community
• NH National Guard Establishing a "Yellow Pages" Directory
• Military and Federal Employee Discounts 
• LOCATIONS TO OBTAIN ID CARDS
• The Military Retiree's Ready Reference Of Telephone Numbers
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    The following information was provided by chapter member Col Michael W. Horne, NHANG (Ret.), Director, NH State Veterans Cemetery:

- For a veteran to be interred at the NH Sate Veterans Cemetery, there is no charge (NHSVC provides the cemetery plot or columbarium niche, the burial, and the ordering/installation of headstone or niche marker, and perpetual care).  NHSVC then collects the veteran’s burial fee directly from the VA.

- For the interment of a veteran's spouse or dependent child, they charge $350.
     [Note – the spouse and if dependent children are interred in the same grave or columbarium niche as the veteran. The $350 covers administrative costs, opening the grave (burial), ordering, installing the headstone with additional spouse information, and perpetual care.]

NOTE: if the interment is a casket, “the funeral home” charges the veteran/family for the casket and the required concrete vault. The good news is NHSVC does not require a vault for in ground cremains so that isn’t an additional cost to anyone.

NHSVC encourages all veterans considering to be interred there to submit an application now and get pre-certified. Pre-certification makes it SO much easier on family members when a veteran or spouse dies.  Print out the attached application, fill in the requested information, attach a copy of your DD214, NGB22, etc. and mail or fax it to them.

Check out their web site at http://nhsvc.com/front.php   Any questions, please contact Michael Horne.

    Click on the link above for a listing of veterans support organizations in the state of New Hampshire that include, among others, State Veterans Council (SVC) Outreach Representatives, New Hampshire Employment Security (NHES) Outreach Representatives, Veterans Administration (VA) Community Based Outreach Clinics.

    The Pease Greeters is a group, started by the Seacoast Detachment, Marine Corps League, who greet flights of service men and women, at the Pease Air Terminal in Portsmouth, NH, both returning and heading overseas to the Middle East.  They provide hot coffee, doughnuts, pizza and other refreshments as well as a bank of twenty permanently mounted phones for use free of charge by the veterans.  If you want to learn more about this worthwhile group or to volunteer to be a greeter, visit their website at http://www.peasegreeters.org/

    Go to http://www.letssaythanks.com/ read the instructions.  Pick a card.  It will be sent to a member of our armed forces who is serving overseas.

    For information concerning military awards and medals refer to the following official Department of Defense web sites.

Army:  https://www.perscom.army.mil/tagd/awards/index.htm

Air Force:  http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/library/awards/index.asp

Navy:  https://awards.navy.mil/

Marine Corps:  https://kuwait.manpower.usmc.mil/manpower/mm/mmma/awards.nsf?open

    MOAA-NH Chapter member LCDR David Kenney, USN, who is also president of the New Hampshire Reserve Officers Association, has compiled a guide that provides online and local resources for those seeking information or wanting to provide care packages, etc. for deployed troops. This is only a guide – there are many other sources available through national organizations like the Red Cross and the USO.  View the guide in HTML format or PDF format.

    The NH National Guard Family Program has established a “yellow pages” directory of volunteers to assist families of deployed troops.  Anyone can volunteer who has a trade or skill that can help a family in need.  These skills could be snow removal, carpentry, automotive maintenance, financial planners or computer technical assistance.  The volunteer decides which part of the state to give assistance.  This could be a specific town, county or region.  If you are interested in providing any volunteer services, please e-mail First Lieutenant Suzanne Barricklow at suzanne.barricklow@us.army.mil or (603) 227-1496.  This is a challenging time for our deployed service members and their families and any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

    The attached list shows restaurants, products, etc. that supposedly offer discounts to military and federal employees.  Some companies may only offer the discounts to active duty military and not retired military.  Whether discounts are offered and how much may vary amoung individual locations.  The bottom line is that it doesn't hurt to ask!

    In addition to the locations listed on the page link above, you can also find the nearest ID card issuing facility by clicking on the following link - http://www.dmdc.osd.mil/rsl/owa/home.