On Monday, Kentucky Veterans Cemetery South East, in Leslie County, will receive the National Cemetery Administration's Stewardship Award. Alvin Duncan is the director of operations for Kentucky’s five state veterans’ cemeteries. He said the Hyden cemeterys received high grades during an administration review last April in several categories, including headstone maintenance and operations.
“We look at how everything is dress, right dress, you look down a row and all the headstones are equally aligned, just perfect. That's one of the biggest things that they did.”
