Volume 75
Public Law 87–240
To amend section 901 of title 38, United States Code, to provide that a flag shall be furnished to drape the casket of each deceased veteran of Mexican border service.
Approved September 14, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 901 of title 38, United States Code, to provide that a flag shall be furnished to drape the casket of each deceased veteran of Mexican border service.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 901 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by—
Inserting after the phrase “veteran of any war” in subsection (a) thereof, the phrase “or of Mexican border service”; and
Adding at the end thereof the following new subsection—
For the purpose of this section, the term ‘Mexican border service’ means active military, naval, or air service during the period beginning on January 1, 1911, and ending on April 5, 1917, in Mexico, on the borders thereof, or in the waters adjacent thereto.”
Approved September 14, 1961.