Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery

I presume the 5th item is the one Kennedy is qualified under.

Individuals eligible for burial at Arlington include the following:

� Any active duty member of the armed forces, except those members serving on active duty for training only.

� Any retired member of the armed forces, who has service on active duty (other than for training), is on a retired list, and is entitled to receive retirement pay. If, at the time of death, a retired member is not entitled to receive retirement pay, he or she will not be eligible for burial.

� Any former member of the armed forces separated for physical disability before October 1, 1949, who has served on active duty and who would have been eligible for retirement under 10 U.S.C. 1202 had the statute been in effect on the date of separation.

� Any honorably discharged member of the armed forces who has been awarded a Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, or Purple Heart.

� People who have held the following positions, provided they were honorably discharged from the armed forces: an elective office of the U.S. government; Chief Justice of the United States or Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; an office listed in 5 U.S.C. 5312 or 5 U.S.C. 5313 (level I and II executives); and chief of a mission if he or she was at any time during his or her tenure classified in class I under the provisions of 60 Stat. 1002, as amended (22 U.S.C. 866, 1964 ed.).

� Any former prisoner of war who served honorably, whose military service terminated honorably, and who died on or after November 30, 1993.

� The spouse, widow, or widower; minor child; and, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, unmarried adult child of any of the people listed above. A surviving spouse who has remarried and whose remarriage is void, terminated by death, or dissolved by annulment or divorce by a court regains eligibility for burial in Arlington. An unmarried adult child may be interred in the same grave in which the parent has been or will be interred, provided that child was incapable of self-support up to the time of death because of physical or mental condition.

� Widows or widowers of service members who were reinterred in Arlington as part of a group burial may be interred in the same cemetery but not in the same grave.

� The surviving spouse; minor child; and, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, unmarried adult child of any person already buried at Arlington.

� The parents of a minor child or unmarried adult child whose remains are already buried at Arlington on the basis of the eligibility of a parent.

Interesting,
It does look as if he is technically qualified.

I still don't like it, however...

I am thinking that if they bury him there, it would be appropriate to use a urinal as a tombstone.

i can't help but agree.

he didn't serve in Korea did he? he didn't serve in Vietnam, that his brother, John helped propagate.

he was rich, protected, liberal, and unworthy. anything else??

Technically qualified and deserving are different qualities.

Looks like he legally qualifies but his hatred for our military and his hypocracy about our war efforts, voting for them when it was politically popular and then opposing them to please the left wing, keeps him from deserving honor from the countrie's veterans.

Arlington National Cemetery!

I guess the dumpster behind O'Learys is full.

BP...

I"m with others, don't care if he qualifies or not, its a damn disgrace.

why don't they just put a port a poti on Basilones grave,same thing if you ask me.
if the rules qualify him then the rules are wrong.

And how!!

That ground was bought and paid for in blood...
It's a damn shame that his body will be in the company of so many heroes...
I'm pissed....

I don't think they can cremate him, that boy is so pickled that the incenerator would blow up! I heard the liquor store down the street from his house is filing Chapter 13.

I don't care much where they bury him as long as they pound the stake in the right place.

You know they'll put him with his brothers...it's pc D.C.

B-HO's order, crock of crap!

DEATH OF SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY

- - - - - - -

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Senator Edward M. Kennedy was not only one of the greatest senators of our time, but one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy. Over the past half-century, nearly every major piece of legislation that has advanced the civil rights, health, and economic well-being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts. With his passing, an important chapter in our American story has come to an end.

As a mark of respect for the memory of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset on August 30, 2009. I also direct that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff until sunset on the day of his interment. I further direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same periods at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.



BARACK OBAMA

Too bad no one pulled a rope for him 40 years ago!!!

What a disgrace ,and sickening putrid event, to have this bastard laid to rest, with battle withered HERO'S that made our country free and great. IMO he has no place amoungst our fallen hero's @ Arlington or any where else.

Most revolting thing anyone could have done, burying that trash in Arlington with Heroes.

I'd rather piss on his forehead at the viewing.

The above gets my vote for 'best post of the thread.'

Next thing you know they'll want to bury Breznef there for the chance he gave to all young Americans to join the service. What a sad joke. At least put on his tombstone here lies the killer of Mary Jo Kopecky.

He should be buried in the same cemetery as Mary Jo Kopechne, but over in the lower corner where the mower sometimes misses and the weeds tent to sprout up......