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Article: New veterans cemetery won't displace Indiantown Gap: The Lebanon County facility will be able to serve families of service members through at least 2030, a federal official says.
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- Reading Eagle (Reading, PA)
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- January 14, 2006
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Byline: Jason Brudereck
Jan. 14--A new national cemetery will open in Bucks County by 2007, but that doesn't mean Indiantown Gap National Cemetery in Lebanon County won't still serve veterans seeking a burial place. Based on its current burial rate of 1,700 per year, Indiantown Gap has enough space to serve veterans through at least 2030, said Michael Nacincik, spokesman for the National Cemetery Administration, which oversees the counfederal officials announced earlier this month. That site was chosen over other candidates, none of which was in Berks County, because it can best serve the 170,000 veterans in southeastern Pennsylvania who don't live within ...