To the Cole County, Surrounding Counties, Jefferson City and surrounding Communities:
We ask the People Mid-Missouri and the surrounding areas to join us – SIGN OUR PETITION - calling upon the Jefferson City Council to approve the expansion of the National Cemetery already approved by the Jefferson City Recreation and Parks Commission to HONOR our Veterans and their families by allowing the expansion of the current National Veterans Cemetery keeping the sacred promise Abraham Lincoln made to Veterans of all conflicts: “To care for those who shall have borne the battle and for their widow, and orphaned child(ren).”
Reject the “Underlying Political Motivations”
Do The Right Thing
Let’s do the right thing. Let’s honor American Veterans and their families by allowing us to expand our current National Veterans Cemetery so that many deserving American Veterans and their families can be laid to rest, just as Veterans promised to uphold and defend the United States, the Constitution, our liberties, rights, and way of life against all enemies foreign or domestic.
Service Members and Veterans fight for this country and our freedom and they certainly deserve an expanded National Cemetery in Jefferson City, the Capitol City of Missouri. We hope that by allowing the expansion of the current National Cemetery that it can demonstrate a good example of the respect of human rights and cultural tolerance on which this country is built and prospers, and for which all Veterans have been protecting, fighting, and even dying for.
When this issue came to public light, notification was certainly lacking if there was any. As a result, most residents who signed the petition to save the park in the area did not know anything about it, let alone even live in Cole County, nearby Counties, or the State of Missouri. We are really questioning whether the process of the opposition was truthfully and honestly conducted with considerations to reach out to the affected residents compatibility, feasibility, and its underlying political motivations to keep this park in place. It is insensitive for Jefferson City Council to overlook the likely negative impacts of this park on its nearby residents. These impacts such as one of the two highest crime rate areas and the lowest property value area in Jefferson City will be profound and lasting to Jefferson City’s economic future, psychological comfort, and Jefferson City community’s multicultural health. The cultural impact cannot be underestimated. It can easily spread into many other areas such as local economic and community development.
Do The Right Thing and let us honor American Veterans and their families by allowing us to expand our current Veterans Cemetery so that many deserving American Veterans and their families can be laid to rest with peace and dignity.
Updates
March 12, 2020
The feedback from the community has been overwhelming. We are working behind the scenes to keep this momentum moving in the right direction.
March 12, 2020
The momentum is undeniable now. It is time for the council to see what this community truly values.
20 Comments
As a veteran and over 60, I am very concerned about where I will be buried when the time comes. I would like to have a place that my family could visit that was not an hour away or more.
I volunteer at a VA hospital and I have attended over 100 veteran funerals. Is it not enough for our citizens to honor us at death with a funeral at a national cemetery? It was our to duty to serve; whose duty is it to care?
It would be great to have the veterans cemeteries close to each other. They sacrificed alot for us to have our freedoms to do as we choose in this nation their families aldi sacrificed them being gone to fight for these rights for all Americans. It the least we can do.
Jefferson City, the Captiol City of Missouri, is honored to have a National Cemetery. It's only right to expand it to accommodate our veterans
I am a veteran with 40 years of military service and would like to interned at home, not at fort wood and damn sure not st louis
I support the cemetery expansion.
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To the Cole County, Surrounding Counties, Jefferson City and surrounding Communities:
We ask the People Mid-Missouri and the surrounding areas to join us – SIGN OUR PETITION - calling upon the Jefferson City Council to approve the expansion of the National Cemetery already approved by the Jefferson City Recreation and Parks Commission to HONOR our Veterans and their families by allowing the expansion of the current National Veterans Cemetery keeping the sacred promise Abraham Lincoln made to Veterans of all conflicts: “To care for those who shall have borne the battle and for their widow, and orphaned child(ren).”
Reject the “Underlying Political Motivations”
Do The Right Thing
Let’s do the right thing. Let’s honor American Veterans and their families by allowing us to expand our current National Veterans Cemetery so that many deserving American Veterans and their families can be laid to rest, just as Veterans promised to uphold and defend the United States, the Constitution, our liberties, rights, and way of life against all enemies foreign or domestic.
Service Members and Veterans fight for this country and our freedom and they certainly deserve an expanded National Cemetery in Jefferson City, the Capitol City of Missouri. We hope that by allowing the expansion of the current National Cemetery that it can demonstrate a good example of the respect of human rights and cultural tolerance on which this country is built and prospers, and for which all Veterans have been protecting, fighting, and even dying for.
When this issue came to public light, notification was certainly lacking if there was any. As a result, most residents who signed the petition to save the park in the area did not know anything about it, let alone even live in Cole County, nearby Counties, or the State of Missouri. We are really questioning whether the process of the opposition was truthfully and honestly conducted with considerations to reach out to the affected residents compatibility, feasibility, and its underlying political motivations to keep this park in place. It is insensitive for Jefferson City Council to overlook the likely negative impacts of this park on its nearby residents. These impacts such as one of the two highest crime rate areas and the lowest property value area in Jefferson City will be profound and lasting to Jefferson City’s economic future, psychological comfort, and Jefferson City community’s multicultural health. The cultural impact cannot be underestimated. It can easily spread into many other areas such as local economic and community development.
Do The Right Thing and let us honor American Veterans and their families by allowing us to expand our current Veterans Cemetery so that many deserving American Veterans and their families can be laid to rest with peace and dignity.
Updates
March 12, 2020
The feedback from the community has been overwhelming. We are working behind the scenes to keep this momentum moving in the right direction.
March 12, 2020
The momentum is undeniable now. It is time for the council to see what this community truly values.
20 Comments
Our local veterans want to be buried at home with their fellow brothers and sisters.
As a veteran and over 60, I am very concerned about where I will be buried when the time comes. I would like to have a place that my family could visit that was not an hour away or more.
I volunteer at a VA hospital and I have attended over 100 veteran funerals. Is it not enough for our citizens to honor us at death with a funeral at a national cemetery? It was our to duty to serve; whose duty is it to care?
It would be great to have the veterans cemeteries close to each other. They sacrificed alot for us to have our freedoms to do as we choose in this nation their families aldi sacrificed them being gone to fight for these rights for all Americans. It the least we can do.
Jefferson City, the Captiol City of Missouri, is honored to have a National Cemetery. It's only right to expand it to accommodate our veterans
I am a veteran with 40 years of military service and would like to interned at home, not at fort wood and damn sure not st louis
I support the cemetery expansion.
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