and once we got her to her hometown of roseville, california, where she was honored by all of her family and friends and teachers and people that she grew up with, we as a family became aware that we would need to pay for her transport to arlington, as my son had chosen to lay her to rest there. and we were fortunate enough to have a nonprofit we were working with step in, who had a private donor who donated his time and services. so, no bills were ever received. no money was ever paid. there was no refusal by d. o. d. to pay a bill, because we never had a bill. my hope and bringing it up was that so future families wouldn't have the worry at the time of trying to figure out how to transport remains.