{"id":29244,"date":"2021-02-12T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29244"},"modified":"2021-02-12T11:44:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:44:57","slug":"national-guard-grave-markers-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29244","title":{"rendered":"National Guard grave markers considered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certain members of the Nebraska National Guard could receive a military grave marker under a bill considered Feb. 11 by the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Under LB261, introduced by Elkhorn Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, a guard member who served on or after July 1, 1973, or served in active duty or reserve federal service would be eligible. The bill would remove a requirement that a guard member have served during wartime to receive a marker.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20150\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20150\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20150\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"senlinehan_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lou Ann Linehan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lou Ann Linehan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20150\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Lou Ann Linehan\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Lou Ann Linehan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Linehan said she was surprised to learn that not all guard members are eligible for a marker. Current law sends a message that, \u201csomehow, you\u2019re not as deserving as those who got deployed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Himes testified in support of the bill. She said her family was unable to obtain a military marker for her brother, who died in 2017 after serving in the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you were not called up by the president you\u2019re not entitled to any sort of recognition in terms of a burial marker,\u201d Himes said.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan McIntosh of the National Guard Association of Nebraska also testified in support. He said current law excludes individuals who have served for many years in the Nebraska National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLB261 is a simple solution to this,\u201d McIntosh said.<\/p>\n<p>No one testified against LB261 and the committee took no immediate action on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain members of the Nebraska National Guard could receive a military grave marker under a bill considered Feb. 11 by the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-29244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-lou-ann"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29251,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29244\/revisions\/29251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}