Arlington National Cemetary
Memorial Day
I can get a great deal on a car in the next few days. Electronics are on sale. Hotel’s are booked. It’s the beginning of summer! All the big networks are wrapping up the TV viewing season. Schools across the country are out or are counting the few remaining days. What I haven’t seen […]
Arlington clean up
Green Thumb, Ex-PH2 and Pinto Nag send us a link to MSN about how the folks at Arlington National Cemetery has decided to change their policy on mementos left graveside in Section 60, the newest section of markers. Needless to say, the families are pretty upset. From the Washington Post; The changes began in August […]
Together for eternity
Hack Stone sends us a link to the story of James Sizemore and Howard Andre who were friends in college and died together as the crew of a Douglas A-26 Invader in Laos in 1969. Last year a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command task force reached the crash site and recovered the two […]
Gina Gray; Arlington whistleblower’s ordeal
Dana Milbank in the Washington Post tells the story of Gina Gray, an actual whistleblower, as opposed to the pretend whistleblowers we’ve read about in the media lately. Gray was a fairly new employee at the Deparment of Defense who tried to tell her superiors about the mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery and she was […]
Lautenberg to be planted at Arlington
Someone wrote to us yesterday to tell us that it had been decided that the late Frank Lautenberg will be buried at Arlington after laying in State at the Capitol. From the Daily Journal; Frank Lautenberg, the last World War II veteran to serve in the Senate, will be buried Friday morning at Arlington National […]
Oh crap… Perfect Timing or What?
Via Doc Bailey and FB. Blame him! Up to 64,000 Graves at Arlington Misidentified or Misplaced, Army Report Finds ARLINGTON, Va. – Thousands of grave markers at Arlington National Cemetery may need to be replaced or added to accurately account for the dead, following a meticulous Army review of each of the nearly 260,000 headstones […]
50th Anniversary
The Secretary of the Army, my homeboy, John McHugh laid a wreath today at President Kennedy’s gravesite to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Green Beret according to Stars & Stripes. Kennedy approved the green beret after visiting Fort Bragg, N.C., in late 1961. In a message to then-Special Forces Commander Brig. Gen. William P. […]
Two Events – Common Ground in Arlington
These seemingly unrelated events happened this week in history. Two years ago some Islamic wacko decided to kill some people in the name of his religion: FORT HOOD (November 5, 2011)—The families of the 13 people killed in the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center are finding comfort in each […]
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