Are they afraid the dead would get the virus?
President Trump will override this.
NOW who’s disrepecting fallen soldiers????
Due to Covid-19 ...
This shit has gone too far. It will only get worse if the Pretender is inaugurated.
Denigrating anything we hold dear is a big part of gaining control over our life. The communists have to destroy our traditions, i.e. Thanksgiving, Christmas, sports, etc. and isolate us from our support, i.e. family, friends, co-workers, church.
“Following a thorough analysis of the annual Wreaths Across America Wreaths-In event this year, and in close collaboration with the Joint Task Force, National Capital Region, we determined that we could not implement sufficient controls to mitigate the risks associated with hosting an event of this size under current and forecasted infection and transmission rates, while still conducting a respectful and honorable public event.”
sooo...the guys who hit the beaches at Omaha get no wreaths because the military’s Joint Task Force Natl Capitol Region is afraid of/can’t figure out how to handle a virus. Here you go poofs...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54971650
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Covid is now the Left’s bludgeon to be used to kill anything they don’t like; attending church, Thanksgiving, Christmas, placing wreaths in cemeteries.
Wreaths Across America is a non-profit organization that is separate and distinct from Arlington National Cemetery. The executive director of WAA is Karen (of course) Worcester.
Are there any Freeper lawyers and accountants out there who have the know-how to get an alternative organization up and running quickly? WAA should simply be run out of existence and replaced with an organization managed by people who give a damn.
Wife will be greatly ticked off if they cancel WaA at the Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery here in NC.
Her Dad is there and she’s been placing wreaths ever since they started.
Safer doing that than going to Food Lion.
Pure idiocy.
The thugs with blm and antifa can riot all they want to, no mask no problem, but these uselesss fartblossoms want to stop the wreath laying this winter.
Outside, looks to me like around 6 feet apart...what’s the problem?
The CCP Virus is the REAL "Cancel culture".
Arlington National Cemetery, an American treasure and a symbol of how we honor those who made and protected America, is also another government bureaucracy.
About 30 years ago, I was tasked to inquire of Arlington what provisions they had for the first few Reservists and National Guard fatalities in the ensuing Gulf War.
Astonishingly, the first two staff (civilian employees)I talked to said they were not eligible because they were not active duty deaths.
They were being killed in combat, yet these people were not aware of that possibility - that a reservist can be called to duty!
I had to get a high ranking supervisor to educate these people.
But a few years later, these same bureaucrats were letting an unqualified Clinton crony to be buried at Arlington (since exhumed after public protest).
In process is a new plan to severely limit future Arlington burials to a very few (Medal of Honor, combat death, Puple Heart, AND CERTAIN POLITICIANS!. Their excuse - “to keep the cemetery from filling up in 2050”.
So much for all those Vietnam vets who slugged it out but were fortunate to not get the Golden Bebee. Guess they weren’t consider part of the war.
Now this on the Wreaths (UPDATE: just rescinded after public pressure.)
"The Army on Tuesday announced that it had instructed the Arlington National Cemetery to host the Wreaths Across America Day event honoring fallen veterans after an announcement Monday evening resulted in backlash over the event's cancellation due to safety concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic.
if too many of the dead get the virus, they won’t be able to vote in the next election... serious stuff for democrats.
What’s the background on any person who runs veteran cemetery operations? It should be a veteran preferably one who has participated in combat operations.
I was glad to hear this had been reversed. My mother became extremely upset when she went to order a wreath for my father’s headstone and was told the wreaths had been cancelled.
Doesn’t fool me. They wanted to cancel this and were looking for an excuse. Same for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The left is getting its money’s worth. They artificially inflated the impact of the virus and used it against Trump. There are other things on their wish list, and they are checking them off one at a time.
How much longer are going to allow this Marxist terror attack to destroy our freedoms and traditions? Wait till the vaccine comes out, I guarantee you something will come up that will make them claim the vaccines are defective. The Marxists aren’t going to give up this power so easily.
This was posted and dealt with by Trump hours after it was announced back in November before Turkey day but then again any day Congress and state legislatures are in session is Turkey Day. Gobble! Gobble! Up the money!