Follow the $$$.
Ted served two years in the United States Army in Germany during the Korean war. And he was an elected to office.
By the current rules, he gets in.
It sucks, but there ya go.
Wasn’t he actually in the Military as a young man?
I don’t know if you meant to say anti-military instead of “non-military” because he was a veteran.
Because he’s a senator and a vet. I don’t like it either but I suspect digging him up and dumping him in a river is a federal crime.
He is a veteran (US Army 1951-53) and was never convicted of treason. I’m no fan of the man, but those are the reasons.
They needed an alcohol source to run the eternal flame.
The fumes from Fat Ted’s coffin will keep in going for 23.8 years.
Arlington is currently restricted to all but KIAs....and very few of those at that. I don’t care if he was a political hack...that should not qualify him...and as to his military service (my mistake), there was nothing in it exemplary enough to merit such an honor.
Just incredibly pi$$ed about this.
Because decent people can’t stop it. That’s the only reason.
Probably the only consolation is...at least he’s being buried.
because the POSOTUS and his administrunz(*)
(*strunz is Italian for turd).is a Fascist/Marxist /Stalinist....and he and his little acorns can crap all over this lands monuments to its heros and the constitution and think they can get away with it....
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY
BURIAL CRITERIA
Part 553 of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations establishes regulations for Arlington National Cemetery, including eligibility for interment (ground burial) and inurnment (columbarium). 32 C.F.R. 553 Eligibility for burial differs from eligibility for inurnment in the columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery. The persons specified below are eligible for ground burial in Arlington National Cemetery, unless otherwise prohibited.[13] The last period of active duty of former members of the Armed Forces must have ended honorably. Interment may be casketed or cremated remains:
- Any former member of the Armed Forces who served on active duty (other than for training) and who held any of the following positions:
* An elective office of the U.S. Government (such as a term in Congress).
TED KENNEDY: MILLTARY SERVICE
Service/branch: United States Army
Years of service: 1951–1953
Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1951.[11] 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.[11] He went to Camp Gordon for training in the Military Police Corps.[11] In June 1952, he was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquarters in Paris.[5][11] His father's political connections ensured he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War.[5][12] While stationed in Europe he travelled extensively on weekends and climbed the Matterhorn.[13] He was discharged in March 1953 as a private first class.[11][13]
The real question is: Will that fat, drunken blob require two spaces?
From what I understand members of Congress qualify to be laid there. That law should be changed but since it pertains to them I don’t think it will be.
Dog, you really need to re-read 1984 and refresh your memory about Big Brother, Doublethink, Newspeak, the Memory Hole, the Ministry of Truth, thoughtcrime, and the Two Minutes’ Hate television program. You are not supposed to have unauthorized questions about things like this. This was a GREAT MAN and no one is allowed to question it.
Back during the Korean war, Edward Morris Kennedy was a washout from college, and he came home to face old Joe. Joe demanded that “Teddy” volunteer his name for the draft, to sort of wipe this stain away (a little), so off Teddy went, to serve in a military liaison office in Paris, France, at some light duty as a PFC. He spent weekends skiing in the Alps and shagging various young ladies in and around Paris - except for the duty of wearing a uniform, he was pretty much free to do as he wanted.
When other men’s sons were going to Korea, he was in a totally sheltered location. Much more so than even Al Gore.
Read the rules - anyone who has served honorably in the armed services (as evidenced by receing an honorable discharge) is eligible to be buried in Arlington. It is not necessary to ever have been in combat.
Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:
He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.
Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:
“In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”
Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”
A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.
Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:
“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”
Kennedy betrays President Reagan:
May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.
To give you an honest answer, it is because he wasn’t a traitor in any legal sense of the word. He was legally speaking, a sitting U.S. Senator in good standing.