U.S. military cemetery running out of space

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Sept 20 (Reuters) - A Kansas military cemetery has run out of space after the burial of another casualty of the Iraq war, 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.

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[saigon68]

1. Bury them deep

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[merh]

2. ...

:cry:

.

[geomon666]

3. Send them here:

The White House
c/o George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

[liberal renegade]

6. Crawford

is a much better place... Let Bush live with the skeletons for the rest of his miserable life.

[Thor_MN]

8. The pig farm will be sold to some corporate whore for an enormous profit around December 08

It will have served it's purpose as a set for the play acting of the worst president ever.

[bdamomma]

11. exactly, let him see the carnage he is creating!!

[TomInTib]

4. Let Brownback stack them in his garage. nt

[Ian David]

5. Bush will just dig-up all the Atheists and Wiccans to make room.

And then, if they need more, they'll start on the Muslim and Jewish corpses next.

[Thothmes]

7. Out of Space

IMO this should not probably be laid at the foot of the current regime. The cemetary at Fort Riley is well over a century old. Vets from the Indian wars, WWI, WWII, Korea, VietNam and Gulf I and now II lie in repose there. The Local VA cemetary closed to new burials due to lack of space. It was established in the Civil War. A new VA cemetary recently opened up with 50 miles of here. The last figure I heard was a 1,000 WWII vets are dying each day. This is most likely the cause for the growing lack of space in National Cemetaries.

[kineneb]

9. "where have all the flowers gone?" -nt

[daleo]

10. Bush family values

"Fort Riley can bury bodies on top of other bodies if family members want to share a plot, said Kohler."

[bdamomma]

12. what a cold rude response that is.

[daleo]

13. It's called irony.

What's cold and rude are all the needless wars filling up graveyards. Especially Iraq.

[hack89]

14. With hundreds of WWII vets dying daily

this has nothing to do with Iraq or Bush.

[davepc]

15. so either they had under 200 plots at the start of the war....

or there are lots of dying WWII retirees.

Since the 2003 beginning of the war in Iraq, Fort Riley has lost 133 soldiers and airmen, though not all are buried in the Fort Riley cemetery. Sgt Joel Murray, who died Sept. 4 in Iraq, took the second-to-the last available plot, and the final plot was used on Tuesday when an 83-year-old retired veteran was buried, Kohler said.

The lead of the story is this :

A Kansas military cemetery has run out of space after the burial of another casualty of the Iraq war, officials said on Thursday.

an honest lead would be this:

A Kansas military cemetery has run out of space after the burial of another World War II veteran, officials said on Thursday.

[Orsino]

16. That's America.

Doing the least it can do for veterans, and doing it late.