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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Will they bury him w/his Neck Brace?
Pray for America
This is per my husband who spent 26 years in the Army.
" Teddy was Commissioned in the Advocate General Corps, (US Army Reserve) when he graduated from Law School, but I don't believe he ever served on Active Duty. The reason they gave for Bobby being buried there, was so he could be buried next to his brothers: JFK (WWII US Navy Officer, Pres. of the US, screwer of Marilyn Monroe, etc.) and Bobby,( who never served a day in uniform). There are other non-veterans buried in Arlington, but few so disreputeable as Bobby."
Dr Joyce Brothers lives in Texas?
JFK may have been an objectionable human being in many regards....but if he were alive and able to have run in 2008...I would have voted for him. His policies and actions were more conservative than the majority of Republicans in Congress today.
Pissing good idea!
Thank you for the information. I wasn’t aware that he served..Many answered my question....thanks to all of you that did
They call him “The lion of the Senate”.
I call him one fat hyena from Hyenasport, Ma.
Why is he entitled to be buried in Arlington?....etc...
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Due to his Honorable Service he can be cremated and placed in Arlington Columbarium or put in the ground in any other National Cemetery.
But I understand that a Senator rates burial there...I don’t really agree with that one....
The most amazing part is the SPEED with which this is being done.
Most people interred at Arlington have a 6 week or so waiting list..this is for all....
Apparently his site had been pre-picked which I also thought was against policy.
I also thought some figured John Jr should be buried in Arlington but they settled for burial at sea..Can’t exhume him from there...Which I pretty much had a problem with but do understand he probably did rate a ‘little something extra’???
The saying on Rodney Dangerfields tombstone would be highly appropriate here ..
There goes the neighborhood...
The only two Kennedy boys to serve were Joe (who was KIA) and Jack. No one else from that family has ever served to my knowledge.
And, no, that is a MILITARY cemetery, NOT one for every drunken bum who sits in a Senate seat. I think there are going to be some other angry vets if that fat POS is laid to rest in OUR cemetery.
Ping
HELL NO!!!
I have run four Marine Corps Marathons; they begin and end at Arlington (finishing up the hill to the Iwo Jima Monument; arggghhh!) The registration forms contain a dignified but blistering threat to all runners to use ONLY the allotted port-a-potties prior to the race (i.e., don't even think about juping the short iron fence to the cemetery, before the race, and peeing there!)
On a positive note JFKs "eternal flame" now has an unlimited source of fuel....
Shouldn’t Teddy be buried in Hanoi, among his peers?
I don’t agree with your statement of the traitor Robert E. Lee. He desecrated this nation and it was the appropriate place to bury those who died for this country. What is sickening is that it is all about the Kennedys. I was shocked when I visited Arlington and made my way around to all the graves of notables who did so much to defend and protect this country and then, really because I had time on my hands before I had to get back to the tour bus, made my way to Kennedys grave and found this enormous marble monument. Like I say, it’s always about them. But Ted being there is too much and a disgrace to every hero on those sacred grounds. That’s true desecration.
Jack was also a Naval veteran and hero of sorts (PT-109). I’m not sure if Bobby served, but was ASTOUNDED that Teddy No-pants served... Arlington is for heroes and war veterans, no one else.
Some here have said that Senators qualify, though, to me, they should only qualify to be a Senator if they’ve served first. Or to hold ANY elective office. Or to cast a ballot in the first place. And be able to PROVE it... While that would not totally eradicate the leftists in public office, it sure would cut down on their numbers and on the damage they could do... Which would be a start.
Instantly, the world has become a better place! His
passing is a cause for celebration. Ted Kennedy was a
crooked, lying, cheating con artist his entire life, right
up to his last breath. The whole planet is safer now
that he’s gone. He was a truly disgusting, and dispicable
human being.
Yes JFK we know served in WWII. I remember now that RFK served in the Navy as well.
As for Teddy Kennedy, Wiki has this entry:
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Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1951. 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. He went to Camp Gordon for training in the Military Police Corps. In June 1952, he was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquarters in Paris. His father’s political connections ensured he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War. While stationed in Europe he travelled extensively on weekends and climbed the Matterhorn. He was discharged in March 1953 as a private first class.
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Ted Kennedy’s service sounds like an early model of Al Gore type of service.
I have to say that JFK’s generation of Kennedys at least served the country and honored its military. Have no info on the current crop of Kennedy clan members.
But I agree that Arlington should be for heroes and war veterans only now especially as it is facing linits on its space.
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