V.A. Slow To Recognize Wiccan Grave Markers

Blog From the Capital today points out a story from last week's Las Vegas Review-Journal (via AlterNet) on the slowness of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and its National Cemetery Administration in approving an application to add the Wiccan Pentacle symbol to the 30-plus others that may be placed on veterans' headstones in national cemeteries. The widow of Nevada National Guard Sgt. Patrick Stewart, killed when the Chinook helicopter he was in was shot down in Afghanistan, is seeking to have the symbol placed on her late husband's headstone.