Gov. Jindal doesn't have time to honor heroes?

Veterans honor medal delays criticized by legislative panel
By Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune
March 09, 2010, 7:38PM

Members of a joint House-Senate committee that handles veterans affairs complained Tuesday that the state is holding thousands of special veterans honor medals until Gov. Bobby Jindal can attend ceremonies to hand them out.

Members of the Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs and the House Special Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs told Lane Carson, Jindal’s secretary of veterans affairs, to devise a way to expedite medal presentations.


Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton“We literally have World War II veterans who are dying before we have this jubilee with the veterans,” said Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, a Vietnam War veteran and chairman of the Senate committee.

He and Rep. John Bel Edwards, D-Amite, who chairs the House panel, told Carson to come up with a way to expedite the medal ceremonies, or possibly face a resolution at the lawmaking session starting March 29 giving him a deadline to do so.
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Veterans honor medal delays criticized by legislative panel