New Veterans Cemetery Planned For Northern Wisconsin

The Department of Veterans Affairs has purchased 6 acres of land in Oneida County to establish a new, rural national cemetery, an action some northern Wisconsin veterans say is long overdue.

The new national veterans burial ground will be located in the town of Cassian near Rhinelander, with burial and cremation sites and a memorial wall and walkway to serve more than 24,000 local veterans.

“Everything that we have as far as our freedoms, our rights, all of those things have all been paid for in blood, sweat and tears by the soldiers, marines, all the veterans that we have. For everything that we’ve got, we owe them, in my opinion, a great debt,” said Jason Dailey, himself an Afghanistan veteran who now works in the Oneida County Veterans Service Department.

Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s only national cemetery, is closed to new burials. The closest open national cemetery is 220 miles away from the Oneida County site in Minneapolis.