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Article: DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS NAMES NEW NATIONAL CEMETERY NEAR SARASOTA

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October 19, 2007
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The Flordia Department of Veterans' Affairs issued the following news release:

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has named the future national cemetery to be constructed near Sarasota as the "Sarasota VA National Cemetery."

Located on a 295-acre site in Sarasota County along State Route 72, the new cemetery will become operational in late 2008. It will provide burials to nearly 400,000 veterans and their families who live in southwestern Florida.

"This new national shrine will be a magnificent, lasting tribute to the service of military veterans in the greater Sarasota area," said Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs Gordon H. Mansfield.

VA has selected Sandra M. Beckley as the first ...

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