The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to reimburse the State of New Jersey for 100 percent of the costs to create a five-acre field of in-ground crypts at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown. 

The five-acre section will hold more than 5,500 crypts. The in-ground crypts will be used during periods of inclement weather and during the winter months.  The crypt field will facilitate a more efficient burial operation.   Construction is scheduled to begin by the end of this year.
This part of the ongoing VA reimbursed expansion and improvement plan for the Veterans Cemetery will cost an estimated $3.5 million. 

The VA, in January, had agreed to reimburse New Jersey for 2 acres of in ground crypts.  This new agreement expands the original agreement of two acres to five acres and will complete the entire section at one time, not in stages.  Placing the in-ground crypts in entire section at one time, instead of completing the work in stages, will also decrease the VA’s cost of installing the in-ground crypt field.
Although it is one of the smaller states in area, New Jersey ranks ninth of the 50 states in total number of veterans and first in per capita ratio of veterans. In 1981, when space in most national cemeteries was limited and both federal cemeteries in the state were closed to new interments, 234 acres near Arneytown was set aside as a cemetery site for New Jersey’s veterans.  On Memorial Day, 1986 Governor Thomas H. Kean dedicated New Jersey’s first state-operated veterans cemetery “as a lasting memorial to those men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our country’s honor and freedom.”  The cemetery was named in honor of BG William C. Doyle on January 3, 1989.  Since its opening, more than 20,000 veterans and their eligible family members have been interred.