In case you have not heard, the National Cemetery Association has made a decision to ban flag-folding recitations by VA employees and volunteers at all 125 national cemeteries all because of one complaint about a ceremony at Riverside National Cemetery in California that included a reference to God.
Lloyd Reese, civil rights attorney and director of the California Defense of Veterans Memorials Project, stated that his group are outraged by this ban. Mr. Reese is also a member of the 16 member detail that has performed more that 1,400 services for those that have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Mr. Reese was quoted as saying, "We will defy this ban, pure and simple," he states. "If the families ask us to recite the flag-folding ceremony, we will abide by the wishes of the family -- not [by the wishes of] some bureaucrat sitting in an air-conditioned office in Washington, DC, or some lawyer wearing a diaper back there whose main mission in life is to protect his own behind instead of standing up for the American people and saying enough is enough."
Last week, the veterans issue was to remove the photographs of currently serving military personnel from a post office wall and this decision was quickly reversed by the Postmaster General. Hopefully, the National Cemetery Association will immediately reverse this decision as well...
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