THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
Please, contact your Senators and Member of Congress and express to them in the strongest possible (civil) language your thoughts concerning the honoring of ALL WWI veterans by allowing their last brother-in-arms to lay in honor in the Capitol.
Thank you.
FACEBOOK PAGES ARE UNITING ALL VETERANS AND CITIZENS STANDING FIRM FOR CAPITOL ROTUNDA HONORS REPRESENTING ALL WWI VETERANS
The Facebook page "Honor Frank Buckles Last WWI Veteran" is coordinating efforts to recognize and honor all WWI veterans.
The battle is still going strong in DC to make this happen, to have Frank Buckles lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.
A March on DC is now being organized. Former Senator Bob Dole has stepped forward as of yesterday to make this happen.
Veterans and supporters are urged to keep the email, faxes, and phone call to DC targeting Speaker of House and Majority Leader Reid in Senate.
It is just wrong not to honor the last survivor of any war that would be representing all others that died from a group ie World War 1 or any war re WW2, Korea, Vietnam etc.
This is not an occurrence that happens that often!
To Honor Rosa Parks but not to honor our Veterans is a slap in the face of every Veteran that ever served! It is after all the House and Senate and their votes that send us to War!
Please all keep the phone calls, emails, and faxes going.
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
As a vet, I feel comfortable with this decision. If laying in repose in the Capitol is reserved for a Head of State, than so be it.
You cannot change tradition because it makes you feel better. Tradition is tradition!
If you change it on a feeling, it’s no longer tradition.
There are 2 others still with us; 1 in Austraila and 1 in Great Britian.
I don’t think that the last survivors of previous wars, many of them combat veterans, were granted the honor of laying in the Capitol. I do not think that a non-combat veteran should get that honor for the World War.
I’m for Arlington, after a long train ride across America so that we can all bow our heads as he passes on.
While my daughter was in Iraq in 2004, she got a random letter from a WWI vet from one of the support the troops associations. It’s her most prized position.
Arlington is a good place to be honored and respected. But I agree, the capitol would be good. Perhaps the wishes of his family should be taken in consideration.
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.
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.