Several Veterans Administration headstones now set in the county sections of the City Cemetery.
Local veterans as well as city and county employees have been working for months to identify service members buried at county expense with no military marker, and no immediate family.
The group then requested the headstones from the VA.
"Those people had their lives on the line one time -- in the military. We don't know the history of every one of them. Some of them boys dodged bullets. Some of them got purple hearts like my buddy that lost his life," said veteran Carl Knott.
"It brought a tear to my eye knowing that we're here ON Memorial Day to honor the trends -- that we have received markers for and the ones that are still waiting to get theirs. It's just a very special day," said Sylvia Chapa, coordinator for the City of Lubbock Cemetery.
City Cemetery and Lubbock County records indicate there are more than a hundred U.S. veterans interred by Lubbock County who qualified to receive the VA marker.
