Posted on 08/26/2009 1:49:10 PM PDT by Former Fetus
Wednesday, August 26, 2009; 4:31 PM
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the political patriarch who died late Tuesday after a 15-month battle with brain cancer, will be buried Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery, close to the famed gravesites of his slain brothers.
As tributes poured in Wednesday from across the country and the world, Washington mourned the Massachusetts Democrat whose outsize personality and political skills continued to drive the health-care debate even in his final days.
Flags were ordered flown at half-staff at the U.S. Capitol, the White House and federal buildings. Across the Potomac River at the nation's military cemetery, photographers and camera crews were escorted to the flickering orange flame and polished marble gravestones that mark the final resting places of John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, in the third year of his presidency, and Robert F. Kennedy, gunned down nearly five years later during his own White House campaign.
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I believe you are correct.
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!
There are some pretty funny and very true comments about Kennedy on this site I do hope the man sought God’s forgiveness......
I, too, would like to know makes him eligible to be buried in Arlington.
Roast in hell, Teddy.
Damn straight. Great place to stop and look at the horizon and take a long pee.
Ted Kennedy will be as though he never lived.
My thoughts exactly. His is going to be the ONLY grave I would piss on; I’d shed my blood for all of the rest.
I cannot understand Robert Kennedy’s burial at Arlington. And to think of Teddy Kennedy buried at Arlington requires a disconnection with logic.
My father enlisted in December 1941 and served until 1945. He was awarded two bronze stars for actions in combat in Europe in 1944-45. He returned home on the Queen Mary along with a couple of thousand other wounded and injured men and very nearly lost one of his feet due to a severe case of trench foot. When he died I called the Social Security Administration and the V.A. about burial and was told he could be buried in a military cemetary - with the exception of Arlington.
My dad was just an ordinary man who did what he had to in service to the nation. He only spoke to me about his military experience on two occasions and both times I could tell he was profoundly effected by what he experienced. I didn’t know about the bronze stars until after he had passed and I found his discharge papers among his effects.
Growing up I remember being surrounded by adults who were like my dad. I remember a salesman at Sears who had served as a gunner on a B-25 in New Guinea who got his face all torn up when shells from a Zero exploded the gun turret he was firing from. I remember a Japanese-American whose family had been confined to one of FDR’s “relocation centers” who volunteered and served in the 442nd in Italy while his family sat in a virtual prison for no reason other than their ancestry. I bet neither of them is in Arlington.
Ted Kennedy was a disgrace to this nation. He was less than a man. His influence on this nation has been wholly malign. The people of Mass. who voted for him time after time are a disgrace to this nation. He deserves burial for hygienic reasons if nothing else but not in a place of honor.
Gosh, I forgot that the Pig Kennedy wanted to work with the Soviets to bring down RR. Didn’t The Worthless One, Jimmy Carter also attempt something similar?
Navy WW2
Better than upside down while he was alive. But then again, for every Senator Kennedy there are fifty more mendacious, liberal politicians waiting to piss on our freedoms for the sake of personal gain. Might as well keep the flag upside down for a while yet.
That loud and growing whirrrring noise we hear are probably the genuine patriots and heroes spinning up to 100% RPM over in Arlington as word gets out he is being buried there.
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.
They (Arlington National Cemetary) are going to have a hard time controlling the visitor spitting/urinating problem, I bet.
My sources confirm that the plants have cut back to two shifts.
I thought the Big Ditch project was preparation for his burial.
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