{"id":30465,"date":"2021-05-20T08:27:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30465"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:30:58","slug":"more-service-members-eligible-for-grave-markers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30465","title":{"rendered":"More service members eligible for grave markers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Additional Nebraska service members are eligible to receive a military grave marker under a bill passed May 19.<\/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>Under LB261, introduced by Elkhorn Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, a Nebraska National Guard member who served on or after July 1, 1973, or served in active duty federal service is eligible.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also removes a requirement that a member of the armed forces have served during wartime to receive a marker. Markers will be available to all members of the armed forces who served in active duty or the U.S. reserve forces.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed LB261 on a 41-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional Nebraska service members are eligible to receive a military grave marker under a bill passed May 19.<\/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-30465","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\/30465","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=30465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30562,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions\/30562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}