Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: PAR35

Until now, women of the Women Airforce Service have been excluded since they started dying after WW II.

There are many women veterans buried at Arlington and have been since the 1860’s.

POS Obama had nothing to do with excluding them.

You really do need to brush up on this history.


40 posted on 05/13/2016 8:30:45 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies ]


To: laplata

You need to brush up on your facts if you are going to try a pro-Obama/pro-Democrat Spin:

Female WWII Pilots Barred From Arlington National Cemetery
01/01/2016 03:55 pm ET | Updated Jan 04, 2016
Matthew Barakat
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/female-wwii-pilots-arlington_us_5686e6b8e4b06fa688827ba1

“Women Airforce Service Pilots, that flew noncombat missions to free up male pilots for combat. Granted veteran status in 1977, the WASPs have been eligible to have their ashes placed at Arlington with military honors since 2002.

But earlier this year, then-Secretary of the Army John McHugh reversed course and ruled WASPs ineligible.

See also:
Women WWII Pilots Denied Final Rest at Arlington National Cemetery
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/01/01/women-wwii-pilots-barred-from-arlington-national-cemetery.html
“Kate Landdeck, a Texas Woman’s University history professor who has focused much of her academic research on WASPs, said she doesn’t understand the rationale for the Army going out of its way to exclude this group of women from Arlington after they had been deemed eligible for over a decade without controversy.”


43 posted on 05/13/2016 9:50:28 AM PDT by PAR35
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson