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URGENT CALL for Additional Veteran Markers with Pentacles
Just passing on a post from one of my lists!
URGENT CALL for Additional Veteran Markers with Pentacles
Tell others: Post to e-lists, blogs, and elsewhere.
If you know of a deceased Wiccan/Pagan veteran in need of a VA-issued
headstone, marker, or plaque with the Pentacle symbol, and would like
assistance with expedited production of it, please contact Rev. Selena Fox
of Circle Sanctuary by Wednesday, MAY 16, 2007 for more details.
email: liberty@circlesanctuary.org
phone: (608) 924-2216 (leave message)
Under the terms of the settlement agreement of the federal lawsuit, Circle
Sanctuary vs. Nicholson, negotiated by Americans United for Separation of
Church and State with attorneys representing the US Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA), those in need of a VA-issued memorial grave marker with
Pentacle to honor a deceased Wiccan/Pagan veteran can get expedited
treatment for marker production, if the completed marker application (VA
form 40-1330) is submitted to the VA by the next of kin within 30 days of
the settlement signing, which was on April 20.
After May 20, applications for veteran grave markers with Pentacles can
still be submitted to the VA, but the production of those markers will
revert to the customary timeframe, which usually takes one to two months.
Rev. Selena Fox, high priestess of Circle Sanctuary, is offering assistance
to families of deceased Wiccan/Pagan veterans in need of VA-issued grave
markers with the Pentacle. She is working directly with VA staff on
requests.
Selena presently knows of twelve requests, five of which have already been
fulfilled! As of May 1, two markers with Pentacles are at Circle Sanctuary
in Wisconsin and two are at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. As of
May 2, one is at a cemetery in Tennessee. Other applications and markers
are in process.
A copy of the VA's marker application, Form 40-1330, is ! on-line at the VA
website, along with other information:
http://www.cem.va.gov/cem/hm_hm.asp
The Pentacle is emblem #37 on the VA's list of emblems of belief that can be
included on federal government-issued markers, headstones, & plaques:
http://www.cem.va.gov/cem/hm/hmemb.asp
A PDF of the settlement agreement (Circle Sanctuary vs. Nicholson) and other
information is at the Americans United for Separation of Church and State
website:
http://www.au.org/site/PageServer?pagename=legal_pentacle
For more information about the Veteran Pentacle Quest Success including
media news links, celebrations, photos, and photos of some veteran markers
with Pentacles:
http://www.circlesanctuary.org/liberty/veteranpentacle
press release issued by Lady Liberty League
Circle Sanctuary, PO Box 9, Barneveld, WI 53507 USA
email: liberty@circlesanctuary.org
phone: (608) 924-2216
fax: (608) 924-5961
web: http://www.circlesanctuary.org
Circle Times: Friday, May 11, 2007
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Re: URGENT CALL for Additional Veteran Markers with Pentacles
Thanks for putting this up! I've been so busy with work that I didn't have time to post this myself. Glad to see folks do care!
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