South Florida National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery

United States National Cemetery

"United States National Cemetery" is a designation for 146 nationally important cemeteries in the United States. A National Cemetery is generally a military cemetery containing the graves of U.S. military personnel, veterans and their spouses but not exclusively so...

, located in western Lake Worth, Florida

Lake Worth, Florida

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. It is maintained by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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, and it is also one of the newest national cemeteries in the United States, when it opened to the public on April 16, 2007, although the official dedication of the cemetery was on March 9, 2008. The federal approval for the 313 acre

Acre

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cemetery was in October of 2000.