There's been recent expansion, and looks like there's plenty of room for more across Patton Drive.
Do important Democrats live there?
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A quiet part of the grounds, without having to fight crowds honoring our dead, from there you can quietly give your own personal homage to the silent dead...
I am affected by this, as I am retired from the United States Air Force.
I support it. Heroes who die on Active Duty should have precedence.
No politicians!!!
Seems to me, what they are saying is: “politicians”
I always thought five or six deep condo stile would help.
It will never quit bothering me that McStain is burried there.
What an insult to the men who sacrificed so much, so he could do the things he did.
Sitting there like you mention, I’m sure it’s a great experience.
Kudos...
Does that mean we get to dig-up Teddy Kennedy? He doesn’t fit any of the new criteria.
I am of the opinion that when a National Cemetary reaches 90% capacity, there should be constructed a Masolium that would hold the remains of those who have been there for more than 100 years.
In the case of Arlington, this would cover Civil War through WWI
I know some would feel that this is not right, but I am of the opinion that re-internment can be done properly and with dignity. This policy would create more “space” for others that need to be buried.
Step #1 should be to dig up that murderer Ted Kennedy and thrown his bones into the Potomac. Then fumigate the plot and it will be fit for someone who deserves to be there.
I commented on this study. I did allow for civilians or nonCombat Veterans going forward. Why should a senator or congressman or presidential appointee be allowed on hallowed grounds for a final rest?
I was going to say we could free up two spaces by removing Ted Kennedy and John McCain.
(Please don't make fun of this aspect. But uis tere a moral reason not to emlpoy it?)
Another way to be more area-economical plan might be to use some kind of above-ground structures with vertical shelves like in many cemeteries.
In this state, the veteran's cemetery already permits a vet and his/her wife to be buried at the same plot vertically.
I'm not being irreverent here, in pondering on this.
Could we give a Navy veteran the opportunity of being buried at sea, as one choice? (I know, this is kind of hare-brained.)
How about some other ways of permanent storage that allows the family and the public convenient access, eh?
I’m in full agreement with your final statement: “No politicians!!!”
Recall the Clinton donor disinterred. Served in merchant marine in WWII.
Ted Kennedy is buried there. Enough said.
Yes!
Someone tell my how Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy qualified to be buried at Arlington? That is an abomination.
It was once R.E.Lee’s estate.
If we must bury politicians there, could we not at least plant them in the latrine areas where they belong?
I’ll happily be buried in the same little town I grew up in; 22 years on active duty with 53 months of combat pay.
My father is there- 33 years in the Army. I qualify, but have my plot all picked out and paid for here near home. I approve of the changes; someone with a day, a week, a month, even a year of active duty doesn’t belong there unless they performed some heroic act or benefited the service or the nation somehow.
YEARS ago, a Marine Colonel told us a story about motivation.
In Arlington they stack the coffins one atop each other due to limited space.
The groundskeepers dug a hole deep enough for five caskets, then called it a day.
That night, after the bars closed, a drunk stumbled through the place and fell into the hole. He tried to get out for the next half hour, then failed and crapped out in a corner.
Soon another drunk came by and fell into the hole, waking the up the first drunk, who watched as the second guy tried to jump out again and again.
“Buddy, you ain’t ever getting out that way” he said.
The guy cleared the hole in one jump, as as far is known, is still running.
Arlington National Cemetery has never been a honest custodian. They were stacking vets like cordwood in graves a few years ago.