Vet Funerals Set Record

Just in time for Memorial Day...

Seems like it's a problem with a pretty obvious fix -- get the hell out of this pointless war.

clipped from www.cnn.com The scene at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery is repeated nationwide more than 100 times a day. Military veterans are being buried at such a rapid rate that national cemeteries use heavy equipment to make room. "We're still in growth mode right now," said Bill Tuerk, undersecretary for memorial affairs at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. "We're in a very high-demand time period, and we're trying to respond to it." An average of 1,800 veterans die each day, and 10 percent of them are buried in the country's 125 national cemeteries, which are expected to set a record with 107,000 interments, including dependents, this year. And more national cemeteries are being built.