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PUBLIC LAW 93-43-JUNE 18, 1973
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hospitalized or undergoing treatment, at the expense of the United States, for injury or disease contracted or incurred under honorable conditions while he is performing active duty for training, inactive duty training, or undergoing that hospitalization or treatment at the expense of the United States. "(3) Any member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the Army, Navy, or Air Force whose death occurs under honorable conditions while he is— " (A) attending an authorized training camp or on an authorized practice cruise; " (B) performing authorized travel.to or from that camp or cruise; or " (C) hospitalized or undergoing treatment, at the expense of the United States, for injury or disease contracted or incurred under honorable conditions while he is— " (i) attending that camp or on that cruise; "(ii) performing that travel; or "(iii) undergoing that hospitalization or treatment at the expense of the United States. "(4) Any citizen of the United States who, during any war in which the United States is or has been engaged, served in the armed forces of any government allied with the United States during that war, and whose last such service terminated honorably. "(5) The wife, husband, surviving spouse, minor child, and, in the discretion of the Administrator, unmarried adult child of any of the persons listed in paragraphs (1) through (4). "(6) Such other persons or classes of persons as may be designated by the Administrator.
- '§ 1003. Memorial areas
" (a) The Administrator shall set aside, when available, suitable areas in national cemeteries to honor the memory of members of the Armed Forces missing in action, or who died or were killed while serving in such forces and whose remains have not been identified, have been buried at sea or have been determined to be nonrecoverable. " (b) Under regulations prescribed by the Administrator, appropriate memorials or markers shall be erected to honor the memory of those individuals, or group of individuals, referred to in subsection (a) of this section. "(c) All national and other veterans' cemeteries in the National Cemetery System created by this Act shall be considered national shrines as a tribute to our gallant dead and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Administrator is hereby authorized to permit appropriate officials to fly the flag of the United States of America at such cemeteries twenty-four hours each day. "§ 1004. Administration laH^i^/ ^""^ '^^^"' " (a) The Administrator is authorized to make all rules and regulations which are necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and may designate those cemeteries which are considered to be national cemeteries. Facilities. "(b) In conjunction wth the development and administration of cemeteries for which he is responsible, the Administrator shall provide all necessary facilities including, as necessary, superintendents' lodges, chapels, crypts, mausoleums, and columbaria. Grave markers. "(c) Each grave in a national cemetery shall be marked wnth an appropriate marker. Such marker shall bear the name of the person buried, the number of the grave, and such other information as the Administrator shall by regulation prescribe.
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