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To: Brumar89 who wrote (168151)	8/7/2011 1:47:07 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543975

How about you ... are you willing to say you want prayers censored or banned in veteran's cemetaries? How about you ... are you willing to say you would allow Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Unitarians, atheists to have whatever service and reference they want, without including Christian symbolism of any kind? That is the real issue here, not trumped up charges that the govt is discriminating against some form of Christianity. The VA responds in the document filed Friday that the cemetery had received a complaint about a year ago from a family member who was upset that military funeral honors had included references to Christianity although the family had specifically requested no religious symbol on the deceased veteran's grave marker. "Subsequently, defendant Ocasio asked the Memorial Ladies to endeavor to respect particular family members religious preferences, and to provide only general condolences without religious reference unless the Memorial Ladies were aware of a family's religious preference and expressions of a specific religious nature would be appropriate," the document reads.