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Byrd to be buried at (an) Arlington cemetery (Columbia Gardens)
Washington Times ^ | 7/06/10

Posted on 07/06/2010 2:59:16 PM PDT by Libloather

Byrd to be buried at Arlington cemetery
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 12:08 p.m. on Tuesday, July 6, 2010

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Family, friends and employees paid last respects Tuesday to Sen. Robert C. Byrd.

His casket was carried into Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va., by a military honor guard, and a line formed for the late morning service in this Washington-area suburb. A single red rose, a spray of white ones and the twang of a bluegrass banjo were in the midst as mourners gathered inside a church.

The 92-year-old Mr. Byrd, who died last week, was to be buried later in the day at Columbia Gardens Cemetery, which is near Arlington National Cemetery, next to his late wife Erma.

Mr. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat who served half a century in the U.S. Senate, died at a hospital in Fairfax, Va. Tuesday's service and burial were the culmination of a week of memorials that included his time lying in repose in his beloved Senate and a memorial in West Virginia's capital of Charleston.

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From another AP story -

ARLINGTON, Va. — Family, friends and employees went to the nation's most hallowed burial grounds Tuesday to bid farewell to Sen. Robert C. Byrd.


1 posted on 07/06/2010 2:59:20 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Bye bye...


2 posted on 07/06/2010 3:00:35 PM PDT by HushTX ( quit whining)
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To: Libloather

Buried with his sheets on?


3 posted on 07/06/2010 3:01:12 PM PDT by hecht (TAKE BACK OUR NATION AND OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM)
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To: Libloather

How many Klansmen will show up?
Sheets Byrd.
RIH.


4 posted on 07/06/2010 3:02:23 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Everytime a democrat loses, a Moonbat gets it's wings burned off.)
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To: Libloather
I can think of a more suitable location, one that would be more reflective of Byrd's life and career.


5 posted on 07/06/2010 3:03:41 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: Libloather
I wonder if he'll be laid to rest near any black patriots. Byrd might not have liked that.

From the Washington Post:

"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.."..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html

6 posted on 07/06/2010 3:03:55 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Libloather

“Columbia Gardens Cemetery”

Do they have a Klan section?


7 posted on 07/06/2010 3:05:21 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
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To: Libloather

Byrd should be cremated on the White House lawn.


8 posted on 07/06/2010 3:05:55 PM PDT by counterpunch (Heckuva job, Barry!)
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To: Libloather

Is that the “Whites Only” section?


9 posted on 07/06/2010 3:07:53 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: HushTX

Just as long as he didn’t purchase the plot from Bill Clinton

TT

Remember the “Popcorn” Guy? (Orville bought a plot from Slick and didn’t get to be interned there, don’t know if slick ever returned the money)


10 posted on 07/06/2010 3:09:22 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (I don't mind liberals... I hate liars...there just tends to be a high degree of overlap)
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To: ETL
Yes, Byrd, who organized KKK draft dodging during WWII should never be buried in a military cemetery.
11 posted on 07/06/2010 3:10:10 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Republic of Texas

Was this on property once owned by Robert E. Lee???


12 posted on 07/06/2010 3:10:30 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Libloather

“Your requested URL was not found,” was the message I got both for your link and the headline link. So, tell me, did Byrd ever serve in the armed forces?


13 posted on 07/06/2010 3:10:56 PM PDT by kitkat (OBAMA hates us. Well, maybe a LOT of Kenyans do.)
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To: Libloather

Didn’t he die a few weeks ago or something? I think it took forever for James Brown to be buried as well. What’s up with this?


14 posted on 07/06/2010 3:11:14 PM PDT by Joann37
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

He probably insisted on that.


15 posted on 07/06/2010 3:12:32 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: kitkat
did Byrd ever serve in the armed forces?

"He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan

16 posted on 07/06/2010 3:15:24 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Yes, it was confiscated by the then Head Quartermaster of the Union army whose son had died in a battle in which Lee was the Commander of the Confederate forces.


17 posted on 07/06/2010 3:18:23 PM PDT by nesnah
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To: Libloather

PBUH


18 posted on 07/06/2010 3:21:56 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Yes... Hallowed Ground, by any definition.

TT


19 posted on 07/06/2010 3:22:11 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (I don't mind liberals... I hate liars...there just tends to be a high degree of overlap)
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To: HushTX
Every one of these "Progressive" socialist bastards should be buried in the inner-city cesspools of drugs, violence, and welfare-dependent parasites that they continue to keep "on the plantation".

I have zero respect for these lowlife political phonies, and they will burn in Hell for what they've done to America.

20 posted on 07/06/2010 3:29:01 PM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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