2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 19 Oct 2007 05:49:57 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Camp Bonneville (WA) cemetery?
 
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
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