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WASHINGTON — A bill to allow some parents of fallen soldiers to be buried next to their children in national military cemeteries has been approved by Congress.
The bill would allow burial privileges for biological or adoptive parents of service members who are buried in the 131 cemeteries run by the Veterans Affairs Department's National Cemetery Administration. The bill passed Wednesday does not apply to burials at Arlington National Cemetery, which is maintained by the Army.
The Corey Shea Act was named for a 21-year-old Army specialist from Mansfield, Mass. who was killed in Iraq in 2008 and was buried at Massachusetts National Cemetery.
