Md. veterans cemetery makes improvements after 7 On Your Side steps in
CHELTENHAM, Md. (WJLA) – After the 7 On Your Side I-Team exposed sloppy conditions at a Maryland veterans cemetery, the state's Secretary of Veterans Affairs issued a personal apology and offered explanations for the problems, promising changes.
When Secretary George Owings met with ABC7 viewer Wendy Miller-Blancke, he welcomed her to what he called "a most sacred place". But when Miller-Blancke visited the Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery late last year, it didn't look sacred. Pictures she captured show graves with sinkholes and a whole section of plots flooded with water and covered with mud.
"That doesn't ease your pain," Owings said. "That doesn't ease your heart when you show up to your father's grave and see a hole or disheveled dirt."
All "5" veterans cemeteries in Maryland are run with respect and professionalism. The problem is that the state continues to cut money for the operation of these sacred places. All of the 5 cemeteries are understaffed and underfunded.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and mud to mud. Another reason not to be put in the ground to rot away. Cremation, get it over with. Free up the earth for other, and future, inhabitants.
"free" government grave plots are just like "free" government health care...second rate. Nobody but a government run graveyard would ever allow grave sites to look like that.
O'Malley's fault. He cares not for veterans. Only Montgomery counties Muslim money.
ReplyDeleteAll "5" veterans cemeteries in Maryland are run with respect and professionalism. The problem is that the state continues to cut money for the operation of these sacred places. All of the 5 cemeteries are understaffed and underfunded.
ReplyDeleteAshes to ashes, dust to dust, and mud to mud. Another reason not to be put in the ground to rot away. Cremation, get it over with. Free up the earth for other, and future, inhabitants.
ReplyDelete"free" government grave plots are just like "free" government health care...second rate. Nobody but a government run graveyard would ever allow grave sites to look like that.
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