Posted on 01/15/2006 3:18:37 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
WASHINGTON — President Bush signed into law last week a provision that eliminates funeral honors and burial benefits for a veteran convicted of state or federal crimes carrying any life sentence.
The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, closed a loophole in the defense authorization bill.
"This law honors our military heroes, and I am so proud to have fought for its passage," Mikulski said in a written statement. "This continues what has been a daily fight for more than 18 years to safeguard vital veterans' services and benefits."
The passage was a small victory for the family members of murder victims Daniel and Wilda Davis, of Hagerstown. The Davis' killer, Russell Wayne Wagner, was convicted and sentenced to two life terms with parole eligibility. Wagner died in prison last February and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery for his service in the Vietnam War.
A son of the victims, Vernon Davis, of Hagerstown, testified before the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee in September. Davis described how Wagner sat his parents on kitchen chairs, tied their hands behind their heads and put pillowcases over their heads. Wagner then stabbed them about 15 times and robbed them before he left.
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Good for her!
Can we get that bill to also cover Senators that have engaged in treasonous acts, or murder (first degree manslaughter)?
BTW: It's now been 350 days since Hanoi John Kerry promised on national tv (Meet The Press) to sign form SF-180. What's the hold-up, John-Boy?
Well, should we dig up Dan Sickles? (Corp commander at Gettysburg) He killed his wife, and was the first person, I believe, who was found "innocent by reason of insanity". and that was before the Civil War.
This is great. What Arlington doesn't need is anyone buried there that would tarnish the honor of those who served honorably and lived honorably.
Excellent.
Now dig the scum's corpse up and get it out of there. If Patton wouldn't have cowards in a "place of honor" (a military field hospital), we certainly shouldn't have scum in a comparable place of honor, Arlington.
It was his wife's lover Philip Barton Key the son of Francis Scott Key, the composer of the "Star Spangled Banner" that he killed. Since he was acquitted of the crime, he wouldn't be ineligible to be burried in a national cemetary. He actually had lots of sympathy for his actions. The public only turned against him when he forgave his wife.
Guess Mr. Keys shouldn't have rubbed another man's rhubarb.
He also was very important in the preservation of the Gettysburg battlefield after the war.
Thanks for the link to info on the very checkered life of Sickles.
Oh, he signed it, alright. And he gave permission to one reporter (from the Boston Globe) to request a certain group of records from one specific repository.
That's how we knew what he scored on his officer's entry exam, for example.
But, beyond that, there wasn't much info beyond name, rank and serial number. Intentionally.
But, now, in response to any questions on his SF-180, he can say, "Been there, done that." And the Boston Globe will lie for him.
"Oh, he signed it, alright. And he gave permission to one reporter (from the Boston Globe) to request a certain group of records from one specific repository.
That's how we knew what he scored on his officer's entry exam, for example.
But, beyond that, there wasn't much info beyond name, rank and serial number. Intentionally.
But, now, in response to any questions on his SF-180, he can say, "Been there, done that." And the Boston Globe will lie for him."
Just when did this occur? I know that he did something like this during the period before the '04 election and made a promise to Tim Russert on his show for full disclosure 350 days ago.
Then this hardly qualifies as "full disclosure" doesn't it?
Typical.
Major General Daniel Sickles, USA (Ret). Lived to 95.
What an amazing story! The further away in time we move from the Civil War, the closer it gets to us.
Hardly.
Won't stop him from claiming it, however, should he get the nomination again. But I don't think John Effin' is going anywhere...
I have no problem with this.
All of him, or just his leg he lost during the war?...currently in a Medical Museum...in the Smithsonian? :P
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