DESIGNATE MEMORIAL CHAPEL AT JEFFERSON BARRACKS NATIONAL CEMETERY A NATIONAL MONUMENT

There are more than 102,000 veterans buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. They include veterans from every war Americans have served in and from every branch of military service. Pioneers who served in the Revolutionary War are buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis County, Missouri. Abraham Lincoln authorized the establishment of the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in 1863. Veterans were buried at the cemetery before it was declared a national cemetery.

The Memorial Chapel is a nondenominational structure built by the Jefferson Barracks Chapel Association. Nonreligious memorial services and activities are also allowed in the chapel. The chapel association is a nonprofit organization run by volunteers to improve the chapel and promote patriotic activities.

President George Bush can designate the Memorial Chapel a national monument by executive order and then seek approval of his executive order from Congress. When he does, the chapel will be the only national monument to all the dead American veterans of every generation. The Memorial Chapel is a perpetual symbol of America’s veterans past, present and future (veterans are now dying from war-related injuries).

Thousands of people a year visit this beautiful national cemetery and the Memorial Chapel. Several past members of the American Federation of Teachers and relatives of members are buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. 

RESOLVED, the American Federation of Teachers lobby actively the president and Congress to designate the Memorial Chapel at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery a national monument.

RESOLVED, the American Federation of Teachers lobby actively the president and Congress to designate the Memorial Chapel at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery a national monument.