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Words cannot express how excited we are about this and Eastern New Mexico will also be honored at the
project. Our veterans deserve this. We are all beyond State Veterans Cemetery in Lubbock.
grateful for the sacrifices made by the men and women
who served, and having a final resting place made to A lot of information and details will be released about
honor that sacrifice is a small way to show our gratitude. Lubbock’s Veterans Cemetery in the coming months,
leading up to its opening. Right now, I just want to say
This was a team effort. The City of Lubbock, the Texas thank you. Thank you to the veterans who fought for
General Land Office, local veterans and organizations, the freedoms we all enjoy. Thank you to everyone who
and elected officials in Austin and Washington D.C. all made the Veterans Cemetery possible. This is one of
helped make this project possible. I am grateful for the many great things happening in our impresssive city of
help from so many people in making this a reality. Lubbock, Texas.

This will be a regional cemetery, not just for Lubbock.
People from the Panhandle, South Plains, Permian Basin,

In 2009, the late Lt. Gen. Bernhard Mittemeyer recruited Maj. Gen. Walter Huffman, the late Maj.
Gen. Edgar Murphy and me to help the veterans in West Texas, and his vision for a new VA Clinic
in Lubbock became a reality in 2021. Many others helped throughout the lengthy process. The
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success of that project led to the vision for a veteran’s cemetery in Lubbock. And now it is about
to become a reality. Federal, state, and local officials and many other veteran advocates have
joined in the effort to ensure that our veterans are honored with a final resting place worthy of
their sacrifice. Thank you to everyone who has helped take the cemetery from vision to actuality! "
~Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Gary Harber

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