Pennsylvania won't have to limit military funeral honors

Pa. won't have to limit military funeral honors
MARC LEVY
Associated Press
Friday, November 23, 2012

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A limit on taxpayer-paid military funeral honors to burials within 100 miles of Philadelphia and central Pennsylvania has been lifted by the state National Guard after it received a commitment for more federal money, a state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs spokeswoman said Friday.

Two state senators, Joe Scarnati, of Jefferson County, and Lisa Baker, of Luzerne County, had protested the policy in a letter this week asking Adjutant General Wesley Craig to reverse it. The senators said that they were shocked that an arbitrary limit had been set without notice or consultation and that it affected servicemen and servicewomen living in several urban centers, numerous small communities and extensive rural areas.

But Craig's spokeswoman, Joan Nissley, said additional federal money received within the past week or two from the National Guard Bureau resolved the need for a limit.
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