National Cemetery's are rich in history even in the words on the tombstones. I worked at the one for a while in my area then found out years later one of my past great great likely great grandfathers was buried there. A couple of generations are now passing. The ones who fought wars in WW2, Korea, and Nam. Our nation owes them more respect than what is currently being given at their passing.
In this "hate crime" congress? - The best that we can hope for is no more detrimental legislation.
The problem is that in the past, especially during WW-II, Korea, and Vietnam, we had much larger numbers of troops than we do now. Those troops are now passing, especially the WW-II and Korean era veterans. There just aren't enough current troops, even including reserve and Guard, to draw from.
We felt lucky that at my father-in-laws service we had one from the VFW, one from the Legion (he was a member of both), one active duty honor guard (they would have sent two) and his oldest Grandson, an SFC in the Army Reserve, who would not hear of anyone else doing the honors for his grandfather. (He had been honor guard in Hawaii, for lots of WW-II vets, during his active duty time). Yes we had the electronic bugle for taps, but he did have the flag folding and presentation to my mother in law. Since there was no graveside service, she got the unfired nickle plated blanks to go with the flag. His two first cousins were there, both veterans, I am veteran, and that grandson is a veteran.
Since my brother and mother arranged my father's funeral, there were no military honors, except the flag, which I now have. Someday I'll pick my uncle's flag too, he died a couple of decades ago, leaving neither widow nor children. (In a very real sense he was a casualty of WW-II, when he "camped out in a lifeboat in the Greenland sea in November of '42, courtesy of one of Admiral Dönitz's U-boats.