I have heard from those who oversee our State veterans cemeteries that they do struggle year after year with two key issues, one, to ensure enough funding is available for day-to-day operations, and two, to maintain proper training for staff in high turnover positions.
Hirono highlights funding and training issues faced by state veterans cemeteries.
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So can somebody respond to me, do you have something in writing that says here are all the different things that we're going to need to do to mitigate what happens in a disaster so that you can continue to provide services to the Veterans?
As far as I'm concerned, we did not do that adequately during the Kavanaugh hearings.
I have been fighting to reopen this facility in order to provide these important services.
I do have a question about some of the categories or the--some specific populations that have a higher incidence of suicides.
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