Coronavirus Pandemic Postpones Veterans鈥� Final Military Ceremony

By Amanda Magnus,

Published April 7, 2020 at 2:53 PM EDT

Lonon faces away from the cemetery while walking away. — Ivar Lonon walks away from the plot where the remains of his father and mother were buried at Salisbury National Cemetery in Salisbury, N.C., on Thursday, March 26, 2020.

COVID-19 is changing all aspects of life 鈥� including the rituals we associate with death. All funerals have been upended, but veterans have now lost one particularly important ceremony: burial with military honors.

瓜神app military and veterans affairs reporter Jay Price shares his reporting with host Frank Stasio about how this policy change is affecting North Carolina鈥檚 five active military cemeteries and how families are coping.

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Amanda Magnus

Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other 瓜神app shows including Tested and CREEP.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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Jay Price

Jay Price has specialized in covering the military for nearly a decade.

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