kale. what were the circumstances? may 30, 2012, michael leshawn anderson went on a shooting spree at an apartment complex, injuring three people and taking the life of alicia dawn kale, a devoted wife and mother of two children. as police were arriving at the scene, anderson then killed himself. shortly after the kale family faced the uncling imaginable, putting their mother and wife to rest, they discovered that the local department of veterans affairs cemetery officials had made a very disturbing mistake. the v.a. erroneously granted the shooter a burial with military honors at fort custer national cemetery in augusta, michigan, on june 6, 2012, and although anderson was a u.s. veteran, his unthinkable act made him ineligible by law to be buried in a national cemetery. we've passed a law prohibiting a veteran, even though they have given service, from benefiting from the honors of a military cemetery burial. after learning that anderson was given this distinct honor of being buried alongside our country's heroes in a national cemetery, t