U.S. Military Cemetery Running Out Of Space

[VenusRising]

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (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.

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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 September 4 in Iraq, took the last available plot, said Kohler.

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

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-iraq-cemetery.html

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They are killing so many there are not enough room for the bodies to be buried unless they want to bury bodies on top of one another?

:wtf: is going on??

:cry:

[Robbien]

1. GOPers willing to ask for funds to bury soldiers, but not willing to vote

to protect them from over-use, under-armored or rehabilitation health care costs.

[VenusRising]

2. I don't think they know how to do anything BUT

throw money at problems. Apparently, money alleviates conscience.