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The security runs around the clock at all but one of those VA-operated cemeteries.
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Government spends millions to guard Confederate cemeteries
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  • The security runs around the clock at all but one of those VA-operated cemeteries.
  • Detroit Police vehicles are parked outside of the Cantrell Funeral Home in Detroit on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. Police said an anonymously written letter led inspectors to find the decomposed remains of 11 infants hidden in a ceiling compartment of the shuttered funeral home. (Junfu Han/Detroit Free Press via AP)
  • Cars sit in traffic outside buildings that lost their facades during Hurricane Michael on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, in Marianna, Fla. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)
  • FILE - This March 1, 1959, file photo shows a Sears building in downtown Houston. Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses. The company once dominated the American landscape, but whether a smaller Sears can be viable remains in question. (Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
  • FILE - This combination of photos shows West Virginia state Supreme Court justices, from left, Robin Davis on Oct. 3, 2012, Allen Loughry on Oct. 3, 2012, Beth Walker on March 16, 2016, and Margaret Workman on Dec. 29, 2008. The four justices were impeached by the House of Delegates in August 2017. The cases targeted spending, including renovations to the justices' offices, and also raised questions about corruption, incompetence and neglect of duty. Walker's trial is set to start Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in the state Senate. (Courtesy of the Charleston Gazette-Mail and The Daily Mail via AP, File)
  • In this Oct. 13, 2018 photo, Clinton Moseley who lives with his mother, reacts as he surveys a large tree that fell on the home in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla. An enormous tree crashed through the roof above one of the bedrooms of the house that’s been in his family for a century. Water gushed in, but he said they’re staying. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
  • Three people are dead Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, after a house fire in the 600 block of East Seminole Place in north Tulsa, Okla. The Tulsa Fire Department says the state medical examiner's office has not yet determined the causes of death. (Stetson Payne/Tulsa World via AP)
  • Police vehicles are parked outside an apartment complex in East Lansing, Mich., on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. Police said a shooting during a fight at the off-campus residences left a Michigan State University student dead (Kara Berg/Lansing State Journal via AP)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2018, file photo, downed trees are seen from the air on Tyndall Air Force Base in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael near Mexico Beach, Fla. It was once argued that the trees would help save Florida’s Panhandle from the fury of a hurricane, as the acres of forests in the region would provide a natural barrier to savage winds that accompany the deadly storms. It’s part of the reason that tighter building codes, mandatory in places such as South Florida, were not put in place for most of this region until just 11 years ago. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
  • FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2017 file photo, firefighters walk through rubble following a house explosion in Lincoln, Neb. A man fatally injured in a natural gas explosion at the house in Lincoln intentionally caused the blast so he could kill his wife, Lincoln police said Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (Amber Baesler /Lincoln Journal Star via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this March 7, 2017 file photo, rowers paddle down the Charles River past the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. A lawsuit alleging racial discrimination against Asian American applicants in Harvard's admissions process is heading to trial in Boston's federal court on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Harvard denies any discrimination, saying it considers race as one of many factors when considering applicants. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
  • In this April 15, 2018 photo, Dawoud Suleiman plays with a doll as his sisters Dawlat, left, and Omaima, sit with him in their tent at Dakuk Camp, near Kirkuk, Iraq. Traumatized by a series of tragedies suffered during three years of fighting in Iraq, the children live under an additional burden: Their father and other family members belonged to the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, a worker repairs a sign outside the Sears Grand store in Solon, Ohio. Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses. The company once dominated the American landscape, but whether a smaller Sears can be viable remains in question. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 23, 1972 file photo, The Right Rev. Paul Moore Jr. arrives at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York to be installed as the 13th Episcopal bishop of New York. The Episcopal Church is acknowledging the power of the #MeToo movement by officially lamenting its past role in sexual exploitation. The church’s self-examination, which included a session at which first-person accounts of clergy abuse were read aloud by bishops, has been particularly dramatic in the Diocese of New York; it is now describing its most famous bishop, the late Paul Moore Jr., as a "serial predator." (AP Photo)
  • Cars sit in traffic outside buildings that lost their facades during Hurricane Michael on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, in Marianna, Fla. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)
  • Marla Wood pulls a framed art piece out of the rubble of her damaged home from Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Fla., Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
  • Candace Phillips sifts through what was her third-floor bedroom while returning to her damaged home in Mexico Beach, Fla., Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael. "We spent 25 years of our marriage working to get here and we're going to stay," said Phillips of her and husband's plans to rebuild. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
  • FILE - This Oct. 2, 2012, file photo shows the grave of Chicano farmworker leader Cesar Chavez in the memorial garden at La Paz, the United Farm Workers of America headquarters, now the Cesar E. Chávez National Monument, in Keene, Calif. Meanwhile, the site of his birthplace sits abandoned in Yuma, Ariz,. The lack of historical markers and preserved historical sites connected to Latino civil rights worries scholars who feel the scarcity is affecting how Americans see Hispanics in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka, File)
  • FILE- In this May 22, 2018, file photo Georgia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams waves in Atlanta. Abrams is trying to reach voters who don’t usually vote in midterm elections in the hopes to drive up turnout in her race against Republican Brian Kemp. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
  • This aerial image made from video provided by KABC-TV shows the wreckage of a bus accident along Interstate 405 in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. Authorities say at least 25 people were injured when the bus crashed into vehicles and through a concrete divider on the highway. (KABC-TV via AP)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2018, file photo, downed trees are seen from the air on Tyndall Air Force Base in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael near Mexico Beach, Fla. It was once argued that the trees would help save Florida’s Panhandle from the fury of a hurricane, as the acres of forests in the region would provide a natural barrier to savage winds that accompany the deadly storms. It’s part of the reason that tighter building codes, mandatory in places such as South Florida, were not put in place for most of this region until just 11 years ago. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
  • The Texas Department of Public Safety says the shooting happened shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday in Taft.
  • FILE - In this undated file photo shows Wendi Winters, reporter for the Capital Gazette. The Capital Gazette reports its former employee Wendi Winters, one of the five employees killed during a mass shooting, will be among five others receiving an Annie Award from the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County for her work at the newspaper. (The Baltimore Sun via AP, File)
  • In this Oct. 13, 2018 photo, Clinton Moseley who lives with his mother, reacts as he surveys a large tree that fell on the home in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla. An enormous tree crashed through the roof above one of the bedrooms of the house that’s been in his family for a century. Water gushed in, but he said they’re staying. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
  • In a photo provided by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, a tranquilized bear cub lies with a bucket stuck on its head in McHenry, Md. Wildlife officials in Maryland tracked the black bear cub for three days in order to tranquilize it Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 and remove a bucket that had gotten stuck on its head. (Maryland Department of Natural Resources via AP)
  • FILE - In a Friday, Sept. 14, 2018 file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters during a news conference, in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo questioned Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018 why state Republicans would have invited the founder of a far-right group to speak in Manhattan, and he blamed them and President Donald Trump for violent clashes that took place after the speech. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
  • Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, holds a photo of a stretch limousine during a news conference in New York, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. On the heels of a horrific limousine crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York on Oct. 6, the Senate's top Democrat is pointing to glaring gaps in safety data that he says exist because federal officials have not done enough to investigate limo wrecks. (AP Photo/Julie Walker)
  • FILE - In a Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2018 file photo, bus appears under the Main Street bridge in the receding water as the search continues for four missing persons who were swept away from their RV park in Junction by the flooding South Llano River in Junction, Texas. Searchers in Junction on Saturday, Oct. 13,2018 located the remains of a third person several days after raging floodwaters overtook Junction, in West Texas. (Tom Reel/The San Antonio Express-News via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this March 7, 2017 file photo, rowers paddle down the Charles River past the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. A lawsuit alleging racial discrimination against Asian American applicants in Harvard's admissions process is heading to trial in Boston's federal court on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Harvard denies any discrimination, saying it considers race as one of many factors when considering applicants. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
  • Friends and family attend a funeral Mass for eight of the 20 people killed in last Saturday's fatal limousine crash in Schoharie, N.Y., during a memorial service at St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church in Amsterdam, N.Y., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
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