Missing Man, Tucson

The Missing in America Project (MIAP) researches records of homeless Americans whose cremated remains have not been claimed, and if found to be eligible, arrange for them to be interred with honor.
See: http://www.miap.us/

On April 15th this year, 30 homeless veterans and one dependent were interred at the Marana Veterans Memorial cemetery and many individuals and groups turned out to honor them. The Arizona Scorpions RV group flew a Missing Man formation to commence the activities and an excellent video was made. It can be viewed by those interested at the following link:
https://dvs.az.gov/arizona-veterans-memorial-cemetery-marana

Well done!

I was having lunch with a mentor of mine who is a Marine (served in Vietnam) and volunteered for MIAP for a while.

He said they have a really really tough time getting the remains released as everyone is afraid of relatives showing up later and suing them - even though some states (Maryland and Delaware in this case) have passed laws to make this process easier.

Thank you for the volunteer work.