I don’t remember Teddy being a vet. Did he ever serve in the military?. If not he has no right to be buried there..
2 year hitch in the Army after getting thrown out of Harvard. Rose to the rank of private.
From wiki:
Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1951.[9] Following basic training at Fort Dix, he requested assignment to Fort Holabird for Army Intelligence training, but was dropped after a few weeks without explanation.[9] He went to Camp Gordon for training in the Military Police Corps.[9] In June 1952, he was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquarters in Paris.[4][9] His father’s political connections ensured he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War.[4][10] While stationed in Europe he travelled extensively on weekends and climbed the Matterhorn.[11] He was discharged in March 1953 as a private first class.[9][11]
Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. Oops! The man can’t count
to four! His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada
during prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in
Europe, not Korea , where a war was raging. No preferential treatment for him!
3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris , never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person of his “education” NEVER advancing past
the rank of Private!
I, too, would like to know makes him eligible to be buried in Arlington.
Roast in hell, Teddy.
Believe it or not, Teddy spent a couple of years in the Army in the 1950s, after his cheating scandal at Harvard and before he graduated from law school at the University of Virginia. As a first-term private, he was assigned to NATO Headquarters, then located in Paris. Go figure.