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In Washington DC
442 Cannon House
Office Building
Washington, DC
20515
202-225-6316 Phone
202-225-4975 Fax
In Albuquerque
20 First Plaza NW
Suite 603
Albuquerque, NM
87102
505-346-6781 Phone
505-346-6723 Fax

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Congresswoman Heather Wilson, First Congressional District of New Mexico


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Wilson Meets with Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Discuss a New Veterans Cemetery for Albuquerque May 23, 2001
 
Washington, DC–Congresswoman Heather Wilson meet with Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs Anthony Principi today to discuss the need for a new National Cemetery in the Albuquerque area. During the meeting Congresswoman Wilson invited the Secretary to visit New Mexico and explained the importance of building a new cemetery when Santa Fe is full in 2008-2010.

“I was very pleased with Secretary Principi’s receptiveness to the need for a new cemetery in Albuquerque and I stressed the importance of a new national cemetery in the Albuquerque area to the Secretary,” said Wilson. “America has long shown its final measure of respect for our veterans of military service by providing burial plots and markers in national cemeteries. It is troubling to me, and to many veterans that we may soon run out of room at the national cemetery in Santa Fe. We will need to replace Santa Fe.”

Last year Congresswoman Wilson won approval of a provision that required the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin an official study of the need for a new national cemetery in the Albuquerque area. The study, now underway by a contractor to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, is the first step in establishing a national cemetery to replace the Santa Fe National Cemetery when it closes to new burials. Wilson also told the Secretary she has requested $400,000 in next year’s budget to conduct planning design and site selection for the cemetery.

New Mexico`s national cemetery in Santa Fe, which opened in 1868, is expected to be at full capacity as early as 2008 and New Mexico Veterans groups have long advocated the establishment of a new cemetery in north-central to replace Santa Fe when it closes.


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