{"id":43760,"date":"2025-11-10T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/43760\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:24:10","slug":"first-state-veterans-cemetery-of-east-texas-makes-leaps-toward-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/43760\/","title":{"rendered":"First state veterans cemetery of East Texas makes leaps toward reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The National Cemetery Association has approved a grant application to build the first state veterans cemetery of East Texas in Harrison County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Harrison County Judge Chad Sims made the announcement at an event in Tyler on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s gone from something that\u2019s a hope and a dream that something that\u2019s really going to happen,\u201d said Sims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The nearest state veterans cemetery for most East Texans sits in Dallas. The proposed site of the new cemetery would sit in Harrison County near I-20 and FM 968. Sims says they will work to create a new exit in that area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sims made the announcement at an event honoring the legacy of the Christian Family, who are donating the 64 acres of land for the cemetery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Debra Christian says she is still working through legal issues on the property, but according to Sims the project is set to go to bid in October of next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The project has also been put at 16 on the list of the VA\u2019s proposed cemeteries. \u201cWe are number 16 in the nation. That\u2019s an amazing accomplishment,\u201d said Sims. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Initial design plans have been approved and the investment is estimated at around $16 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There is no timetable on when the project would be complete after a succesful bid was completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The National Cemetery Association has approved a grant application to build the first state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25820,12089,27,29,28,19761,9011,25819,16210],"class_list":["post-43760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-east-texas-veterans","tag-harrison-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-veterans","tag-tyler","tag-veterans-cemetery","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}