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Last year, religious references were banned from funeral rituals and a Memorial Day service at Houston National Cemetery. A lawsuit eventually resolved the matter, but a new House bill would enshrine in law the lessons learned from that isolated incident.
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Ethics,
Death & Dying
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Interfaith
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