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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Seeking a successor cemetery
Development - Willamette National is about out of room, and proponents 
of replacements are already making their pitches

ALLAN BRETTMAN
The Oregonian
October 15, 2007

Willamette National Cemetery could be closed to burials in 10 years, 
maybe even sooner.

With that in mind -- and with the federal government yet to launch an 
official search for another cemetery in the region -- advocates for 
sites in the Willamette Valley and east of Vancouver are gearing up. 
They are preparing sales pitches, touting a patriotic basis and noting 
the economic benefits for their areas.

...

Among the choices, Camp Bonneville, about 10 miles east of Vancouver and 
seven miles north of Camas and the Columbia River, would be closest to 
that center. The former military training camp is rich with military 
history -- and speckled with remnants of that legacy.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/stories/index.ssf?/base/news/1192413320281060.xml&coll=7&thispage=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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