LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — Seven servicemen were laid to rest at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery during a Thursday morning group ceremony, years after their deaths and with no family in attendance.

The veterans — three Army, two Marines, one Navy and one Air Force — were among more than 120 unclaimed veterans buried at the cemetery this year. The burials happen on a near-weekly basis, with a maximum of seven per week.

Robert Donald Wilkinson, a specialist who served in the Army during Vietnam, passed on Sept. 16, 2022. Daniel Jerome Longworth, also a specialist who served in Vietnam, passed on Oct. 14, 2020. Fellow veterans did not know them in life, but do share their journey.

“Those who served in Vietnam shared with all other war veterans an awful knowledge and understandin

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