National Cemetery Policy: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on National Cemetery Policy |
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... close to one eligible dependent for each eligible veteran . By 1995 the annual death rate of these two groups will closely approach 1 million and will stay near the figure for some years thereafter . It is obvious that our present ...
... close to one eligible dependent for each eligible veteran . By 1995 the annual death rate of these two groups will closely approach 1 million and will stay near the figure for some years thereafter . It is obvious that our present ...
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... close by that at the present time can be obtained at what we think is a reasonable price . We think it should be done , but we recognize that this is probably true in many other areas , so we are looking now for a set of rules by which ...
... close by that at the present time can be obtained at what we think is a reasonable price . We think it should be done , but we recognize that this is probably true in many other areas , so we are looking now for a set of rules by which ...
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... close the one remaining artery between the eastern and western portions of Edgewater Park Township . This would create an intolerable condition for those of us who live here . Furthermore , at the present time approximately 7 percent of ...
... close the one remaining artery between the eastern and western portions of Edgewater Park Township . This would create an intolerable condition for those of us who live here . Furthermore , at the present time approximately 7 percent of ...
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... close the Custer National Cemetery after the existing available burial sites are filled . However , in view of the requests being made for burial in the Custer National Cemetery from such distant places as Nebraska , North and South ...
... close the Custer National Cemetery after the existing available burial sites are filled . However , in view of the requests being made for burial in the Custer National Cemetery from such distant places as Nebraska , North and South ...
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... close down as soon as present cemeteries were filled , and that we would cease to have a national cemetery system as we have had in the past . Colonel TEMPLE . That is correct . Mr. RUTHERFORD . You have no possible alternative as to ...
... close down as soon as present cemeteries were filled , and that we would cease to have a national cemetery system as we have had in the past . Colonel TEMPLE . That is correct . Mr. RUTHERFORD . You have no possible alternative as to ...
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12 percent 40 million 50 miles 87th Congress acres additional Administration Admiral HoYT American Legion Arlington Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery Army ASPINALL Battle Creek Beverly National Cemetery bill BRENNAN Budget Bureau burial allowance buried in national Chairman CHENOWETH close Colonel TEMPLE Committee on Interior CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Custer D.C. DEAR death Department Disabled DURNO Edgewater Park Township eligibility for burial established expansion facilities February 23 feel figures Foreign Wars Fort Bayard funeral gentlemen going grave sites gravesites HUGHES Insular Affairs Interior and Insular interment J. T. RUTHERFORD KENNEDY land legislation Municipal Cemetery national ceme national cemetery system National Parks organizations Pennsylvania problem question recommendation record request resolution SAYLOR space statement STOVER Subcommittee on National submitted survivors teries Thank tion tional cemetery TURNER U.S. Army United veteran population Veterans of Foreign Whereas WITMER World War II
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Page 44 - veteran" means a person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable.
Page 78 - As previously announced, this is a hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Page 44 - Administration facilities, may furnish domiciliary care to — (1) A veteran who was discharged or released from the active military, naval, or air service for a disability incurred or aggravated in line of duty, or...
Page 19 - Chairman, Subcommittee on National Parks, House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs...
Page 58 - In addition to the foregoing, when such a death occurs In the continental United States or Hawaii, the Administrator shall transport the body to the place of burial In the continental United States or Hawaii. Where such a death occurs In a Territory, a Commonwealth, or a possession of the United States, the Administrator shall transport the body to the place of burial within such Territory, Commonwealth, or possession.
Page 43 - ... a board of managers of an establishment for the care and relief of the disabled volunteers of the United States Army, to be known by the name and style of " The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers...
Page 43 - ... the president of the United States; the chief justice of the Supreme Court; the president of the senate; the speaker of the House of Representatives; and the presidents of the following institutions, viz.: Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University.
Page 101 - ... do not need this compensation, and this situation is met by the clause in the bill which provides that before the adjustment is made that application must be made for it. On the other hand, the great majority, and particularly the private soldier, does need the relief, and it should be granted. As a member of the national executive committee of the American Legion I come as a representative of the service men of North Dakota. Telegrams and letters sent to me from practically every post in the...
Page 77 - OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 9 :55 am, in the committee room, 1324 Longworth House Office Building, Hon.
Page 3 - I understood it, there was an informal agreement between the chairman of the Armed Services Committee and the chairman of the Interior Committee.