Posted on 03/08/2011 8:25:28 PM PST by mukraker
How will they send off the Last Doughboy?
A Texas congressman who worked with the last surviving World War I veteran to try to create a national memorial to “The Great War” is calling for the late Army veteran Frank Buckles to lie in repose in the Capitol Rotunda — a setting usually reserved to honor those who have been president.
Honoring Buckles at the Capitol “is our chance to say thank you to the last of a generation,” said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, who served in the Air Force Reserves in the 1970s. “It is the final legacy of those who fought ‘Over There.’”
“Frank Buckles is the last one — the last American Doughboy,” Poe said.
Buckles’ daughter, Susannah Buckles Flanagan, also has requested the additional honor for her late father who died last month at the age of 110. “If the last American soldier surviving is not suitable to serve as a symbol around which we can rally to honor those who served their country in the Great War, then who can serve that purpose?"
"There is no one left,” said Flanagan, who took care of her father at his farm in West Virginia.
The congressional leadership, headed by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has balked at having Buckles lie in repose in the Capitol and instead is urging the Pentagon to have Buckles’ funeral at Arlington National Cemetery’s amphitheater.
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You don’t really need an answer to that question, do you.
This is silly, the man was lucky enoughs to live longer than those he serve with. He was not a giant amount men, and if I had been he, I would not want my body anywhere near those sorry ass senators.
Lying In State
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/lain_in_state.cfm
Seeing what this country has come to is probably what finally killed him.
Please look up the word: “Obtuse”.
FRANCE!
America used to honor it's veterans. FR used to have respect for our Veterans. While Frank Buckles may not have been a war hero, he was the last Veteran of WWI. His passing marks the end of an era. In honoring him, we pay honor to all Veterans, and especially to the American WWI Veterans, who are now all gone.
May they rest in Peace.
Non of them are soldiers other than L’Enfant. He designed the Capitol, so you can kind of understand that one.
Except, he was interned in 1902 by that stalwart conservative Teddy Roosevelt. Did I mention L’Enfant died in 1802?
Arlington is for soldiers, the Capitol is for “others”!
Arlington is for soldiers, the Capitol is for “others”!
Very, very good! Thank you.
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