North Dakota Veterans Cemetery 30 Year Commemoration Ceremony

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Mandan, N.D. – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Veterans Affairs and Armed Providers Committees, participated within the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery’s 30 12 months Commemoration ceremony with Main Basic Alan S. Dohrmann, North Dakota Nationwide Guard Adjutant Basic, and Senator John Hoeven (R-ND).

“Attending the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery’s 30 12 months Commemoration ceremony was an unbelievable honor. Each single veteran was prepared to pay the final word sacrifice—that is the basic distinction between us and them—and so they deserve all our honor and appreciation. North Dakota has one of the best Nationwide Guard within the nation and their excellence was absolutely on show at present. On this sacred floor, we bear in mind freedom isn’t free and it’s only potential due to our courageous women and men within the armed companies. We thank them at present and on daily basis for his or her unbelievable sacrifice and repair to the USA of America,” mentioned Senator Cramer. 

Earlier this yr, Senator Cramer’s Burial Fairness for Guards and Reserves Act, which ensures all reserve elements and the Nationwide Guard are eligible to be buried in state veterans cemeteries so long as their service was terminated underneath honorable circumstances, was signed into legislation. In March, Senator Cramer penned an op-ed within the Southern Illinoisan calling on Congress to move his invoice to permit state veterans’ cemeteries to bury Guard and Reservists with out penalty from the federal authorities.

As a member of SVAC, Senator Cramer shepherded the Burial Fairness for Guards and Reserves Act by way of committee in December, and it handed unanimously out of the Senate on March 7, 2022. The invoice even introduced Veterans Affairs Below Secretary for Memorial Affairs (USMA) Matthew Quinn to Fargo to listen to instantly from North Dakotans on this problem.