Construction at Riverside National Cemetery Causes Controversy

The following excerpt is from an article posted at the ktvl.com website.

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A congressman is stepping in to help the family of a soldier buried at California’s Riverside National Cemetery.

A friend of Lieutenant Jared Landaker says the the family pushed for protection of military grave sites after seeing the cemetery turned into a construction zone.

Landaker was killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan seven years ago.
His family shocked to see his peaceful resting place at the Riverside National Cemetery turn into a construction zone where grave markers were rolled over by heavy machinery and plucked from the ground.

“It was hard. It was the 7th anniversary of his death. It was already an emotional day, but to encounter that at the same time was hard for all us,” Stacie Hernandez, Landaker’s childhood friend, said.

That’s why she joined his family to call for change. They reached out to the community and Congressman Paul Cook, who is a veteran himself, for help.

Read the full article and watch the video.

Thanks to Suzi Pentico for the heads-up on this story.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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