Once the VA confirms a veteran’s eligibility, Mr. Lindley schedules a military funeral and arranges for mourners. On duty At the end of September, Mr. Lindley interred four men who had died in 2014. They moved into a small house in Pacific, Wash. Mr. Lindley experiences night sweats and anguished dreams of combat. Later, Mr. Lindley drove to Tahoma’s columbarium, walls of vaults behind a stand of maples with leaves tinged an autumn-red. “This is where their brothers and sisters are.” Afterward, Mr. Lindley visited his grandfather’s granite headstone.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 13, 2017 15:19 UTC