TUCSON – The Southern Arizona Missing in America Project (MIAP) will honor and inter 37 unclaimed or indigent Veterans during a ceremony on Saturday.

The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. at Arizona Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery, 15950 North Luckett Road. This ceremony is open to the public.

The veterans to be interred served in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. The ceremony will include military honors and last roll call before the veterans are settled in their final resting place.

In April, 17 veterans were interred during a similar ceremony.

Ceremony’s agenda:

9 a.m. – Posting of the Colors

9:20 a.m. – Approximate arrival time of cremains

9:45 a.m. – DOD Honor Guards escort cremains to the platform

10 a.m. – Official ceremony start

Call to order

Opening remarks

Pledge of Allegiance

National Anthem

Invocation

Last roll call

Military honors rendered

Flag presentation

Benediction

Closing remarks

Retiring of the Colors

Veterans committed to final resting place

Final prayer

11 a.m. – Estimated end of service

The MIAP has interred more than 4000 Veterans nationwide. Their focus is to locate, identify and inter the unclaimed remains of American Veterans. Learn more about MIAP here: https://www.miap.us/