Minnesota National Guard Adjutant General Larry Shellito fields questions from the media on June 9, 2010, after then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced the general’s retirement at the State Capital in St. Paul. Shellito, now the state’s veterans affairs commissioner, would have a new means to fund military honor guards at veterans’ funerals under a bill authored by Sen. Mike Parry, R-Waseca.
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