Returning the Nation’s Cremated Veterans Home

Since 2007, the Missing In America Project has found more than 8,000 unclaimed veterans’ cremated remains and laid them to rest with honors.

A volunteer carries the cremation urn during a funeral service for 14 veterans and a spouse at the National Memorial Cemetery in Phoenix, Ariz., on March 18, 2026. Every other month, the nonprofit Missing In America Project sponsors the veteran interments. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

PHOENIX—From ashes to ashes, thousands of veterans’ remains rest in cremation urns, locked away unclaimed in funeral homes for years, even decades.

Mark Wells, a veteran and the Arizona state coordinator for the Missing In America Project, has become all too familiar with these heartbreaking accounts.