Alabama Expands Veteran Cemeteries | Birmingham News

Birmingham AL News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 10, 2026 · 1m

Alabama is expanding its veteran cemetery network with groundbreaking on a second memorial site in Madison County, set to serve north Alabama veterans who’ve faced a 75-mile gap to the nearest federal cemetery. Funded by a $13.5 million federal grant, the new cemetery aims for its first burials by Veterans Day 2027. Meanwhile, Coffee County in the Wiregrass region is eyed as a third potential site, with a $2.5 million budget request to secure land and close that same distance gap. The existing Spanish Fort cemetery, already home to over 5,000 veterans and recently honored with an operational…