PRINTER'S NO. 1127
No. 124 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, JULY 28, 2003
REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,
JULY 28, 2003
A RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing the Congress of the United States to pass H.R.
2 1516.
3 WHEREAS, Veterans residing in metropolitan Philadelphia are
4 in desperate need of a new national veterans cemetery; and
5 WHEREAS, Southeastern Pennsylvania veterans do not have the
6 opportunity to be buried in a veterans cemetery within 75 miles
7 of their home, as the Department of Veterans Affairs guidelines
8 require, and this imposes an emotional and physical burden on
9 their surviving loved ones; and
10 WHEREAS, The importance of and need for a veterans cemetery
11 in the southeastern Pennsylvania region has already been
12 recognized by the 108th Congress; and
13 WHEREAS, For providing heroic service and sacrifice to our
14 nation, southeastern Pennsylvania veterans should have the
15 opportunity to be buried close to home; therefore be it
16 RESOLVED, That the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
17 memorialize Congress to pass H.R. 1516; and be it further
1 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
2 the presiding officers of each house of Congress and to each
3 member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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