Reuters, September 22, 2007
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (Reuters) -A Kansas military cemetery has run out of space after two burials in the last week, including that of an Iraq war casualty, officials said on Thursday.
“We are full,” said Alison Kohler, spokeswoman for the Fort Riley U.S. Army post, home of the 1st Infantry Division.
U.S. Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, both Kansas Republicans, on Thursday sent a letter to William Tuerk, the under secretary for memorial affairs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, urging for full funding for a new cemetery for Fort Riley.
“While a new cemetery would not be completed in time to alleviate this situation immediately, it is vitally important,” Roberts and Brownback, a Republican presidential candidate, said in their letter.
“We truly owe our military members a debt of gratitude and the least we can do is provide them with an honorable burial ground,” the senators wrote.
Another good example of how our present administration plans ahead.
They know we are going to be there a long time.
They kow there will be thousands of our young people killed there.
Why don’t they prepare for it, instead of being caught like this.
This is as much a responsibility of people like Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts as it is the Veterans Affairs Dept.
Comment by e z rider — September 23, 2007 @ 9:39 am