{"id":404,"date":"2013-02-02T17:47:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T03:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.wordpress.com\/?page_id=404"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:53:19","slug":"military-funeral-honors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/references\/military-funeral-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Funeral Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2024\/07\/201222-Z-IX631-038-scaled-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Military Funeral Honors\" class=\"wp-image-68359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2024\/07\/201222-Z-IX631-038-scaled-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2024\/07\/201222-Z-IX631-038-scaled-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2024\/07\/201222-Z-IX631-038-scaled-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2024\/07\/201222-Z-IX631-038-scaled-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2024\/07\/201222-Z-IX631-038-scaled-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Military has a time-honored tradition of honoring their fallen. On January 1, 2000, Military Funeral Honors became a statutory benefit to all veterans with the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act. The law requires that upon a family\u2019s request, every eligible veteran receive a military funeral honors ceremony to include a two-person detail for the sounding of Taps and the folding and presentation of the U.S. flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A family member or authorized representative is encouraged to notify the funeral home director or service coordinator of their desire to have military funeral honors rendered at the internment of their loved one. The funeral director then contacts the appropriate branch of service that the Veteran served in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-medium-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/ovs\/military-funeral-honors\/\">Hawai\u02bbi National Guard Military Funeral Honors Program<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Last reviewed on July 23, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Military has a time-honored tradition of honoring their fallen. On January 1, 2000, Military Funeral Honors became a statutory benefit to all veterans with the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act. The law requires that upon a family\u2019s request, every eligible veteran receive a military funeral honors ceremony to include a two-person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"parent":264,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"45545,63232,38447,5270,23097,35956","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-404","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86700,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions\/86700"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}