Dee DiCostanzo began to cry as she shared memories of her father John.
John DiCostanzo died six years ago, expecting to be buried nearby at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Irvine.
After all, the City of Irvine had approved the 125-acre site in 2014 to build a federally recognized veterans cemetery.
Dee keeps her father’s ashes in her Irvine home, waiting to bury him at the El Toro site, now a part of the city’s Great Park.
“It would mean a lot,” Dee told The Epoch Times, describing how her large family living nearby would be able to visit her father’s resting place. “We all live in Long Beach or Irvine or Laguna Niguel, so for us to have a place like the Great Park [in Irvine] and to be able to go there and visit it would be nice. Right now, we have nothing.”…