ROMULUS (AP) -- New York's newest veterans' cemetery has opened at a former military base in central New York.
Burials at the 162-acre Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery along Seneca Lake, which was dedicated last weekend, could begin with a few weeks.
Among the first veterans to be interred will be Clinton VanGelder, an Air Force veteran who did his basic training at Sampson base during the Korean War. He died in January 2010 and his casketed remains have been held in a vault in a cemetery near his home in Interlaken.
The base was used to train 400,000 sailors during World War II and 300,000 airmen during the Korean War. It closed in 1956.
New York later transferred the land to Seneca County and donated $3.7 million in grants to build the cemetery.
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