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To: SandRat
Does anyone know anything about the new czar for Arlington Cemetery, Katherine Condon? Is she going to follow directions from the Obama regime and move the heroes buried there and buried terrorists? As crazy as this sounds, I wouldn't put anything past “O”.
Any comments?
3 posted on 06/10/2010 7:54:00 PM PDT by Nitehawk0325 (I have the right to remain silent, but I lack the ability...........)
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To: Nitehawk0325

She’s an Unknown.


5 posted on 06/10/2010 7:58:42 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Nitehawk0325

I’m not putting down Arlington, because it’s a beautiful place and I think it’s a fitting way to honor our fallen heroes. However, I do find it ironic that the cemetery was actually started there as a thumb in the eye to General Lee. Dead Union soldiers were buried there largely as payback for his disloyalty in resigning his commission from the Union army and joining the Confederacy. At around the same time they were deciding to bury Union soldiers there, the Union was swindling the Lee family out of the land through an illegal scheme (later overturned by the Supreme Court) wherein they refused to accept payment of taxes from an agent of the Lee family and demanded that they pay the taxes in person, which they knew the Lees would be unable to do.

I just found that fascinating when I toured Arlington last year. I had never heard it before.


7 posted on 06/10/2010 8:02:51 PM PDT by RightFighter (So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!)
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To: Nitehawk0325; SandRat; zot; Interesting Times; SeraphimApprentice

This IG investigation has been brewing for months. The main honcho had announced his retirement about a month ago. I have vague memories of Katherine Condon from when I was on active duty Or back as a DA civilian(I retired in 93). She is a career Department of Army civilian. And was a competent person. I believe that she will do our deceased brothers in arms the appropriate honors.


8 posted on 06/10/2010 8:03:12 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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