What paperwork do I need to bury somebody in a VA cemetary?

Question

If there's no discharge papers with the family is it a real hassle?

Answer 1

This persons discharge papers from the branch he was in.

You can get help from the local VFW Hall , the branch office of the service can also help.

Answer 2

This sounds like a question a mortician could answer.

Answer 3

Try accessing the records through the National Records Center in St. Louis. The problem there will be  if your friends records were among the records burned in a fire there in 1972. Primarily those records were mostly of the Korean War Era.