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Cuts Mean Veterans Wait Even Longer for Arlington Burial
U.S. Naval Institute ^ | 3/1/13 | U.S. Naval Institute

Posted on 03/01/2013 9:39:54 AM PST by Saint X

The ten percent sequestration cuts across the Department of Defense budget will increase wait times at Arlington National Cemetery, a cemetery spokesperson told USNI News on Thursday.

Due to the cuts funerals will drop from 31 interments a day to 24, or about 160 less funerals a month, according to preliminary estimates from the cemetery

(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arlington; military; vets
The wait time for a Navy vet's burial with honors is already over 3 months. It must be tough on families because it drags out the mourning process.
1 posted on 03/01/2013 9:40:04 AM PST by Saint X
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To: Saint X

How about instead of this, we don’t give any foreign aid to Muslim countries?


2 posted on 03/01/2013 9:43:32 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Saint X

Looks like Obama has the Navy in on the act too. The sky is falling! If this happens, its because the administration is cutting here intentionally to inflict pain. We can cut $85 billion out of $3.7 trillion without anyone feeling anything other than a minor inconvenience.


3 posted on 03/01/2013 9:48:14 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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I have a close friend, a retired AF two-star,who died the first week of October and is finally being buried on March 14th......unreal! I’m going up for it and just hate that his family is going through the grief yet again.....4 months after he died!


4 posted on 03/01/2013 9:55:33 AM PST by BamaDi ("The definition of a racist today is anyone who is winning an argument with a liberal.")
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To: Saint X

I bet not one bureaucrat in such vital(sic) agencies as the Department of Agriculture will get so much as a 10 minute furlough, while Obama will cut air traffic controllers and the US military. What Obama is doing is criminal and puts the whole country at risk so he can play his political games and raise taxes.


5 posted on 03/01/2013 9:58:38 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: Saint X

I know some Early Head Start “teachers” who are going to a “conference” at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in June. The gubmint is picking up the entire tab, except for alcohol. The priorities of the 0bama regime make me puke.


6 posted on 03/01/2013 9:59:14 AM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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Being a veteran, and expecting my ashes to get placed in a National Cemetary.... I really don't care how long it takes for that to happen. Whenever it happens, it'll be the last time my ashes get hauled.

/johnny

7 posted on 03/01/2013 10:03:07 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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We buried my father (WW2, Korea and 2 tours Vietnam) at ANC in 2005. That was one of the most organized functions I’ve ever seen. It started exactly on time, ended exactly on time.


8 posted on 03/01/2013 10:08:18 AM PST by albie (`)
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don't cut out luxury jets for Holder and Panetta, don't stop giving phones to the parasites on welfare, don't stop the bullsh#t disability claims of addicts and drunks for SSI, lay off of the tens of thousands of mid level bureaucrats, furlough congressional staffers, stop payments on Arts, lay off the swat teams in the education department and the EPA. ..... it's all bullsh#t.

I have a healthy disregard for "our" government. It is now run by the parasites and their hosts.

9 posted on 03/01/2013 10:10:23 AM PST by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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As long as Sequestration doesn't stop the Free-Obama-Phone program,
Obama's America will survive these mean-spirited republican budget cuts!


10 posted on 03/01/2013 10:35:30 AM PST by Iron Munro (I miss America, don't you?)
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When do welfare recipients get a cut in their benefits? When do they have to tighten their belts?
11 posted on 03/01/2013 11:00:07 AM PST by fhayek
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