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I’m a veteran on disability & VA housing assistance. There were many people in the human/social services fields, some with masters degrees & some even with doctorates, who spent time & effort to help me and many would also make a point to educate me about the cultural bias, stigma, etc. directed at people on assistance programs. I do what I do in their honor.
June 17, 2025
Case ID: xxxxxx
Northglenn, CO 80260
Dear Scott ...:
We have reviewed your request and supporting documentation for a determination of eligibility for burial in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national cemetery in advance of need. We find that, as of the date of this letter, you are eligible for burial in a VA national cemetery.
Eligibility criteria for burial in a VA national cemetery are stated in section 2402 of Title 38 United States Code (U.S.C.), Persons eligible for interment in national cemeteries. This finding of pre-need burial eligibility does not reserve or guarantee a gravesite in a particular VA national cemetery. Burial benefits in a VA national cemetery include opening and closing of the grave, perpetual care, and a government-furnished headstone or marker, at no cost to your family.
VA will save your pre-need claim form, supporting documentation, and this decision letter in a recallable system to expedite your burial arrangements at your time of need. We encourage you to retain this information along with your other important papers. We also encourage you to discuss your burial wishes and arrangements with your family members or authorized representatives. At your time of death, should your family or personal representative request burial in a VA national cemetery, VA will confirm this finding of pre-need eligibility based on the laws in effect at that time.
I hope this information is helpful in planning for your future burial needs. Thank you for your interest in our VA national cemeteries.
Sincerely Yours,
National Cemetery Scheduling Office Director
The below images establish my cultural ethnicity as Society of Friends, a.k.a. Quaker, but a non-conforming branch in regards to always adhering to pacifism, and more specifically, that opposition to violence is reasonable, but not always practical. The point is that I was a person that any particular group of people could figure out how I was to be "othered", or just didn’t adhere to my posit exactly right, i.e., ad hominem, or kafkatrap (type thing). There does exist a socioeconomic caste of people where their posit is to go ahead and be all about hedonistic conformity, and when they’re white people they will even feign non-racist if they need to, but with hubris... and then they’ll be liberal, and can blame gov’t, military, the man, etc., but while avoiding the stigma of racism themselves, they’ll inevitably reinforce disparity. In any event, if there is ever an issue with my work here, then the first things I’d bring up in my defense is the below documents.
Benjamin Franklin McCurdy, was my great grandfather, and his draftcard is included. I understood that my family had a position overall, of being defensive of equality, as I’ll put it here. I was taught from young age that we had special consideration for American Blacks, and I learned their history which included the ships, which could take close to two months to cross the ocean. I also knew at young age about the mistreatment of Blacks even after slaves were freed and I was further instructed that the specifics of the Civil War weren’t my business; & by that there was instilled awareness of racist white people who’d use trickery to coerce me to be like them, with one way being discussing the war. There’s other phrasing too, that people of the culture who are reminiscent of Antebellum South, and even those that understood the ongoing tensions and could go either way. Wasn’t their problem... the racism & all that so who better to b-lame then those who understood something about it all? Why learn about anything unless it’ll be a beneficial pay-out, of course how is it possible to know if something will provide some tangible gratification, validation, etc., unless it’s pursued? So there’s inherent risk with any endeavor and so if it can also be easily rebuffed as unnecessary, or counterproductive somehow, then the risk increases to the point where people will tend to shun anyone who posits to challenge oppression. Why be friends with somebody who’d be ridiculed at some point? There are people throughout history who’d lost the ability to "fit-in" but yet had contributed enormously to the benefit of humanity. Quite the opposite of the stereotypical villian, but the two could be effectively switched in context, is the point. A person may overcome some stigma (from trauma) and become better (more aware & compassionate) people as a result, and then as they return to the world, as it were, people might suggest they wasted their time in the whole affair, they could have been enriching themselves instead ... where the implication is that it was the person’s own choice to be "held back" (by the trauma) and any "betterment" would’ve come anyway ... no different than what they have, after all, of course they know all about (whatever the topic is) ... but they also have nice house & all the trimmings & here, have some wine (type thing).
One of my more recent projects was converting scanned magazine articles to digital text and a Colorado history magazine (printed in 1973) included an article about Junius R. Lewis. There was an injustice committed against him that entailed gender issues as well as the racism that he had to contend with. It’s a fascinating story! (The article includes references so converting it to EPUB3 with audio reader capability is an aspect that needs work.)
I have another website at erfahren.info and thought I'd use this for some of my other articles. Please check back for updates.