Congressman Chris Deluzio and six other congressmembers reintroduce an act to honor veterans with memorial headstones or markers

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) According to a release from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office, Deluzio, along with Congressmembers Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), John Joyce, M.D. (R-PA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Dan Meuser (R-PA) and G.T. Thompson (R-PA) reintroduced the Dennis and Lois Krisfalusy Act. This act will give a marker or memorial headstone to a dependent child of a veteran or an eligible spouse of a veteran. These memorials can be put up regardless of the date that a family member passes away. The memorials will be either at a state or tribal Veterans cemetery or at a national cemetery.