U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s June newsletter arrived recently, and I was pleased to learn that she is concentrating on the really big issues of the day.
Hartzler provided us with updates on three important issues. The first update covered her support for the shoreline residents of the Lake of the Ozarks. Another paragraph blasted President Barack Obama for whatever. The remaining major section of her newsletter was devoted to a progress report on her co-sponsored HR 2355, The Hallowed Ground Act, which, if passed by Congress, would prohibit sex abusers from being buried in graveyards allocated for U.S. veterans. One of Hartzler’s constituents had complained that her husband, a veteran, was going to be buried in a cemetery reserved for veterans. She claimed that her husband did not deserve to be buried with military honors in that cemetery because he had sexually abused her. Thus, the birth of the Hallowed Ground Act.
