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This last Tues­day, August 7, Pres­i­dent Obama signed the Hon­or­ing America’s Vet­er­ans and Car­ing for Camp Leje­une Fam­i­lies Act of 2012. It’s a clumsy name for a bill that does many things. It will…

… help improve access to health care for vet­er­ans, stream­line VA ser­vices, expand sup­port for home­less vet­er­ans, and also pro­vide extended med­ical care for vet­er­ans and their fam­i­lies who were based in Camp Leje­une in the years the water was con­t­a­m­i­nated there, and pro­hibit protest­ing at mil­i­tary funerals.

The part of this you may have heard about is the final phrase: “pro­hibit protest­ing at mil­i­tary funerals”.

Out of a col­lec­tion of non-​​controversial pro­vi­sions, that last one stands out. It bears spe­cial men­tion. (more…)