0001| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 71 | 0002| 43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998 | 0003| INTRODUCED BY | 0004| W. C. "DUB" WILLIAMS | 0005| | 0006| | 0007| | 0008| | 0009| | 0010| A JOINT MEMORIAL | 0011| DIRECTING THE NEW MEXICO VETERANS' SERVICE COMMISSION TO | 0012| INVESTIGATE THE PROPER PROCEDURES AND PURSUE THE DEDICATION OF | 0013| THE MILITARY CEMETERY IN FORT STANTON AS AN OFFICIAL ALTERNATE | 0014| RESTING SITE FOR THE BURIAL OF VETERANS. | 0015| | 0016| WHEREAS, as we come to the end of the twentieth century, | 0017| our nation's military cemeteries are increasingly filled to | 0018| capacity with the nation's war heroes; and | 0019| WHEREAS, in New Mexico, many war veterans choose to be | 0020| buried at the Santa Fe national cemetery; and | 0021| WHEREAS, the Santa Fe national cemetery has been forced | 0022| to continually expand to accommodate these needs; and | 0023| WHEREAS, in the southern part of the state, Fort Stanton | 0024| has increasingly been utilized as the final resting place for | 0025| many veterans, a role that the merchant marine and military |