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Byrd to be buried at (an) Arlington cemetery (Columbia Gardens)
Washington Times ^ | 7/06/10

Posted on 07/06/2010 2:59:16 PM PDT by Libloather

Byrd to be buried at Arlington cemetery
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 12:08 p.m. on Tuesday, July 6, 2010

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Family, friends and employees paid last respects Tuesday to Sen. Robert C. Byrd.

His casket was carried into Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va., by a military honor guard, and a line formed for the late morning service in this Washington-area suburb. A single red rose, a spray of white ones and the twang of a bluegrass banjo were in the midst as mourners gathered inside a church.

The 92-year-old Mr. Byrd, who died last week, was to be buried later in the day at Columbia Gardens Cemetery, which is near Arlington National Cemetery, next to his late wife Erma.

Mr. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat who served half a century in the U.S. Senate, died at a hospital in Fairfax, Va. Tuesday's service and burial were the culmination of a week of memorials that included his time lying in repose in his beloved Senate and a memorial in West Virginia's capital of Charleston.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arlington; byrd; klan; rat
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To: Libloather
Byrd to be buried at (an) Arlington cemetery (Columbia Gardens)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

How deep?

Put him down about 50 feet. We do not want him shpoing up to view "Twilight Eclipse!"

41 posted on 07/06/2010 5:46:36 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ...He meets every diagnostic of history)
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To: chris_bdba

No West Virgin´y funerals for him. No sir.


42 posted on 07/06/2010 5:50:09 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Libloather

At least it was NEAR Arlington and not IN Arlington!


43 posted on 07/06/2010 5:52:24 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: ETL
"He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed] Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military: "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]" He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

No big deal. He was just trying to get elected. /Bill Clinton

44 posted on 07/06/2010 6:00:34 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Politicians exist to break windows so they may spend other people's money to fix them.)
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To: Libloather
I visited Arlington Nat'l cemetery last week, I was attending a Marine reunion in Washington. I've visited Arlington in the past, but haven't visited the Kennedy grave site. Jackie Onasis Kennedy is buried next to her first husband ... her grave is as elaborate (in terms of size) as JFK's. Interesting in that this women remarried, divorced, and later had a live in boyfriend in NYC for many years. But, hey ... we're talking liberals and Camelot.
What was just as appalling, Robert and Ted (the swimmer) were buried close by in the same plot. The only grave missing was Marlyn Monroe's.
45 posted on 07/06/2010 6:17:21 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Libloather; All
The Democrat Arlington:


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

46 posted on 07/06/2010 6:20:47 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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The Democrat Arlington:


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

47 posted on 07/06/2010 6:21:07 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: BluH2o
Robert and Ted (the swimmer) were buried close by in the same plot. The only grave missing was Marlyn Monroe's.


The new family tombstone, erected after the death of Mary Jo's mother in December, 2007.
Added by: Geoff Wilson, 9/04/2008

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4569

48 posted on 07/06/2010 6:24:22 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: onedoug

Isn’t that a slap to WV! Used growing up there his whole career but he buries his wife near DC rather than home and has the same thing done for him. Atleast it will be easy to leave sheets there for him since it isn’t in the guarded military cemetery!


49 posted on 07/06/2010 7:48:20 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

“Isn’t that a slap to WV! Used growing up there his whole career but he buries his wife near DC rather than home and has the same thing done for him.”

UPI.com
Byrd, wife to be reburied in W.Va.
Published: July 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/07/06/Byrd-wife-to-be-reburied-in-WVa/UPI-61541278431726/


50 posted on 07/07/2010 1:21:16 AM PDT by Mila
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