House and Senate lawmakers last week passed the Respect for Fallen Heroes Act (HR 5037), sending it to the President on May 25. They had hoped to have President Bush sign the legislation before Memorial Day; he signed it on Memorial Day, May 29. The measure restricts the “vile, offensive, and organized protests” that have taken place at military funerals around the country, said Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. It prohibits demonstrations within 150 feet of a road, pathway, or other route of ingress or egress from national cemeteries either 60 minutes before or 60 minutes after a funeral. The distance was a compromise the Senate reached with the House, which had wanted a 500-foot restriction.
After years of describing to lawmakers and Pentagon leaders the nature of that threat and the key role spacepower plays in deterring conflict in the domain and enabling the rest of the joint force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters during AFA’s Warfare Symposium here that the message appears to…