Our national cemeteries are managed by the federal government, by the Department of Veterans Affairs. There are three different types of national cemeteries. There are the VA national cemeteries, which are the 128 that we manage. There are national cemeteries that are managed by the United States park service and those are all historic sites, for example Gettysburg, Antietam, those kind of historic sites, and they're not open. They're historic sites. And then there are the national cemeteries, such as Arlington, that are managed by the Department of the Army and there are only a couple of those, and then there are the state veterans cemeteries. Those cemeteries--the ones that we fund through the state cemetery grants program--mirror our standards as far as how they look and the veterans they serve. Some states have state veterans cemeteries that they've built on their own. They may be old, they may also be historic, but the difference is that they're either managed by the federal government or managed by the state government.
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