Military Cemetery Expansion Signed by Bush
Come on, there's plenty of funding for special BENEFITS TO VETERANS that's been in the works since last year.
"Bring 'Em On!", says Junior
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Veterans Would Benefit from Bush Budget
National Cemeteries
President Bush's proposed FY 2002 budget requests $121 million, or $12 million more than the current level, for VA's national cemeteries. It doubles to $10 million the spending dedicated to upgrade the cemeteries to a level befitting their status as national shrines. Funds will be used to renovate gravesites and to clean, raise and realign headstones and markers.
The request includes funding for land acquisitions for new cemeteries in the Detroit, Pittsburgh and Sacramento areas; development of a new cemetery in Atlanta; design of a new cemetery in Miami; and columbaria expansion and improvements at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, Mass., and the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Wash.
The Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act of 1999 requires VA to establish six additional national cemeteries in areas of the United States in which the need for burial space is greatest. Those areas are: Atlanta, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan; Miami, Florida; Sacramento, California; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
