One of the first ceremonies in Iowa on Memorial Day will be held Monday morning at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Van Meter.
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That is retired Colonel Robert King. He leads the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs and he’ll be at the ceremony on Monday morning. King occasionally presides over burials at the cemetery.
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King says.The Iowa Veterans Cemetery opened in the summer of 2008. The first U.S. soldiers to be buried in Iowa are from the Civil War era. the Keokuk National Cemetery is the final resting place for 600 Union soldiers, eight Confederate soldiers and 27 unidentified soldiers.
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