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Connecticut Groups Adopting Resolution to Save the State Veterans Cemetery
The American Legion Department of Connecticut Formally Adopts Resolution NEW HAVEN, CONN. (May 14, 2025)—The two largest veteran service organizations in Connecticut, and dozens of veteran posts and associations, are adopting a resolution urging state lawmakers to save the state veterans cemetery in Middletown from closing. Both the American Legion Department of Connecticut and Veterans…
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Letters: A clarion call for Middletown
Dear Middletown residents, The Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown will be running out of space by July 2027 and will close. Fortunately, in late January 2025, the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) posted an invitation to submit proposals (DVA -RFP 25-01) for site offerings for the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), “throughout the State…
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NEWS: ‘Impending crisis’
Save Our Cemetery seeks aid to annex veterans burial grounds February 18, 2025 By Cassandra Day, Staff Writer https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/connecticut-veterans-cemetery-expansion-middletown-20166024.php MIDDLETOWN — A grassroots campaign of war veterans hopes Connecticut lawmakers will address an “impending crisis” by adopting a resolution to expand the State Veterans Cemetery after Middletown denied a state Veterans Affairs request to buy 90 acres…