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To: Tax-chick
Others have said it, but so will I. She's wrong.

She's not wrong. She's spectacularly, unbelievably, overwhelmingly wrong.
10 posted on 08/18/2005 2:31:40 PM PDT by drjimmy
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To: drjimmy

Quality adverbs! Very good!


13 posted on 08/18/2005 2:43:10 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Officially around the bend, at least for now.)
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To: drjimmy
I'm sorry, but, with all respect, I think you are being too harsh. Look at the link above, and read the information about other foreign nationals buried at Arlington.

A number are Allied personnel who died while stationed in Washington during the First and Second World Wars. These people deserved honorable burial, but it would not have been feasible to send the bodies back to their native lands in time of war.

The next largest group, into which the Iraqui in question also falls, is comprised of foreign service personnel who were killed in air crashes along with Americans and whose remains are indistinguishable from those of their American comrades. During WWII, we apparently had an agreement with the Brits that when remains were intermingled in this fashion, they would be turned over for burial to the nation having the most service members aboard the aircraft. It is for this reason that British General Ord Wingate, leader of the famous Chindits in the Burma campaign, is actually buried at Arlington. I suspect there are Americans interred for the same reason in England.

I know space at Arlington is limited and will one day run out. However, I think our nation can and should be gracious enough to accord this brave Iraqui a decent burial beside his American comrades. We don't owe it to him. We owe it to ourselves to be big enough to accord him this honor.

18 posted on 08/18/2005 2:48:14 PM PDT by blau993 (Labs for love; .357 for Security.)
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