[CPEO-IRF] Camp Bonneville (WA) cemetery proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Veterans want Camp Bonneville cemetery instead of public park


By THOMAS RYLL
The Columbian
August 2, 2006

Willamette National Cemetery is a 269.4-acre space straddling the 
Multnomah-Clackamas county line a mile east of Interstate 205 and seven 
miles south of the Columbia River. Its rolling hills are home to the 
remains of some 127,000 military veterans, their spouses and children.

After more than a half-century of accommodating burials that now average 
3,500 a year, Willamette is nearing its own end. The last six-acre tract 
of cemetery space is being readied for graves, and officials estimate it 
will be full in seven to 10 years.

Now, 11 years after the start of the effort to transfer the Army's 
3,800-acre Camp Bonneville to Clark County for use as a regional park, 
some local veterans are advocating that the site, or at least a portion 
of it, be transformed into a military cemetery. "The best use would be 
as a cemetery where veterans can be buried with dignity and honor," 
veteran John Oxford of Woodland told the county commissioners at a 
hearing last week.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/08022006news47762.cfm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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