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COLORADO SPRINGS — The Veterans Affairs department has agreed to buy land for a national cemetery in El Paso County, officials announced Wednesday.
The veterans cemetery will be off Bradley Road, east of Powers Boulevard, southeast of Colorado Springs, said Victor Fernandez, chairman of the Pikes Peak National Veterans Cemetery Committee.
“You don’t know how good this feels,” said Fernandez who has spearheaded efforts to get the cemetery for more than a decade.
The cemetery deal was first announced by Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat.
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