SANTA ANA, Calif.—Final taps will be played for Orange County’s police and firefighters at a special, 10-acre section next to the new Southern California Veterans Cemetery site that soon should be built in Anaheim Hills. It will be the first cemetery in the nation dedicated to first responders.
On June 28, the Orange County Supervisors unanimously passed item S58D. It allocated $1 million from the discretionary funds of Supervisor Don Wagner of the Third District, which includes Anaheim Hills, for the special site. His original proposal passed the board on March 8.
The Southern California Veterans Cemetery is expected to be built soon after a decade of wrangling in the county and the California Legislature. An assembly bill has been introduced to get the project approved by the state. Orange County currently has no state or federal cemetery for veterans, the closest being Riverside National Cemetery….