‘Strict Separationism’ Runs Amok - William E. Simon Jr. & Matthew J. Franck - National Review Online

‘Strict Separationism’ Runs Amok - William E. Simon Jr. & Matthew J. Franck - National Review Online

Arleen Ocasio seems to be setting herself up for a second rebuke from a federal judge. Ocasio has been, since 2009, the director of the Houston National Cemetery, which, at 419 acres, is the second-largest cemetery administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, exceeded in size only by Arlington. Houston National has somewhere in the neighborhood of 70,000 men and women interred there, including several Medal of Honor winners and the congressman who worked to have the cemetery built and recognized as a national one. It is, like all such places, a scene of both sorrow and celebration, of patriotism — and prayer.