The following excerpt is from an article posted at the ktvl.com website.
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.
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Thanks to Suzi Pentico for the heads-up on this story.
