HR 2071 · 93th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security
A bill to direct the Secretary of the Army to provide memorial plots in national cemeteries for certain former members of the armed forces and to permit the adjacent burial of certain family members of such former members.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.(1973-01-15)
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Provides that, in the case of any former member of the Armed Forces whose remains have not been recovered and have been determined to be nonrecoverable, the Secretary of the Army shall: (1) set aside a suitable plot in a national cemetery to honor the memory of such member, (2) permit the erection of an appropriate marker thereon in honor of such member, and (3) permit the remains of the surviving spouse, minor child, and, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, unmarried adult child of such member to be buried in such plot or an adjoining gravesite. (Amends 24 U.S.C. 281)…
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