0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 71
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                         W. C. "DUB" WILLIAMS
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     DIRECTING THE NEW MEXICO VETERANS' SERVICE COMMISSION TO
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0012|     INVESTIGATE THE PROPER PROCEDURES AND PURSUE THE DEDICATION OF
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0013|     THE MILITARY CEMETERY IN FORT STANTON AS AN OFFICIAL ALTERNATE
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0014|     RESTING SITE FOR THE BURIAL OF VETERANS.
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0015|     
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0016|          WHEREAS, as we come to the end of the twentieth century,
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0017|     our nation's military cemeteries are increasingly filled to
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0018|     capacity with the nation's war heroes; and 
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0019|          WHEREAS, in New Mexico, many war veterans choose to be
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0020|     buried at the Santa Fe national cemetery; and
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0021|          WHEREAS, the Santa Fe national cemetery has been forced
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0022|     to continually expand to accommodate these needs; and 
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0023|          WHEREAS, in the southern part of the state, Fort Stanton
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0024|     has increasingly been utilized as the final resting place for
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0025|     many veterans, a role that the merchant marine and military
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0001|     memorial cemetery at Ft. Stanton has filled for nearly one
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0002|     hundred years; and 
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0003|          WHEREAS, given the role this cemetery has played in the
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0004|     lives of so many veterans, it should be officially designated
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0005|     as a national cemetery; 
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0006|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0007|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico veterans' service
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0008|     commission investigate the proper procedures and pursue the
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0009|     designation of the merchant marine and military memorial
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0010|     cemetery at Ft. Stanton as a national cemetery and alternate
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0011|     resting place for New Mexico veterans; and
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0012|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0013|     transmitted to the New Mexico veterans' service commission and
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0014|     members of New Mexico's congressional delegation.
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