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A Mass. mother's wish to be buried with son killed in Iraq could alter VA burial policy
Source: LA Times/AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Denise Anderson lost her only son in the Iraq war. She's determined not to lose her fight to be buried with him in a national veterans cemetery.
Army Spc. Corey Shea died Nov. 12, 2008, in Mosul, with one about a month left on his tour of duty in Iraq. He was buried at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, about 50 miles from his hometown of Mansfield, Mass.
A grieving Anderson, 42, soon hit an obstacle in her quest to be buried in the same plot with her son. That chance is offered only to the spouses or children of dead veterans; Corey Shea was 21, single and childless.
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Anderson also sought a waiver. But under the VA's policy, she has to die first to get one, a limbo that Anderson finds tough to live with.
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Anderson doesn't understand why her request can't be granted now. She is challenging the VA's burial policy with support from her congressman, Rep. Barney Frank, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
"The disproportion between what this country owes her and what she is asking is just as large as can be," Frank said.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/s...
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Can someone with military background tell me why Barney Frank is wrong on this?