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Delgado Bill Enables

Veterans’ Cemeteries

In Counties Like NY’s

Congressman Testifies Today In D.C.

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Otsego County’s congressman, Antonio Delgado, D-19, today testified before the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs on legislation to authorize the Veterans’ Administration to issue grants to counties to establish, expand or improve veterans cemeteries. “As the law is written, only state-run veteran cemeteries are eligible for the National Cemetery Administration’s Veteran Cemetery Grants Program,” Delgado said. “This prohibition cripples counties in states like New York that do not have state-operated veterans’ cemeteries, but rather county-operated facilities.” Today’s hearing was on Delgado’s Fairness for Local Veteran Cemeteries Act,

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  1. Thank You Congressman Delgado,
    The Fairness for Local Veteran Cemeteries Act is a service of Respect to our local aging Military Veterans population long overdue. All Military Veterans are free to apply for Burial in our local Cemetery. The is no systematic Racism laid bare here Sir. Nor in our Constitutionally based Republic regardless of what Leftist Haters will say either Sir.

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