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Kennedy to be buried at Arlington
MSNBC ^ | August 26 2009 | Mark Murray

Posted on 08/26/2009 9:08:42 AM PDT by tapatio

A U.S. defense official confirms that the late Ted Kennedy will be buried at Arlington Cemetery -- date and time still TBD.

The official expects he will be buried at the John F. Kennedy gravesite, but that is also still TBD.

Any sitting or former senator is eligible for burial at Arlington Cemetery, but Kennedy's military service alone does not qualify him for burial there since he did not retire from the Armed Forces. His military service alone only qualifies him to be cremated and inurned at the Columbarium at Arlington

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KEYWORDS: arlingtoncemetery; breakingnews; disgrace; disgusting; kennedy; maryjokopechne; swimmerbuysit; tedcare; tedkennedy
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To: what's up

Isn’t Grant’s tomb in NY? I thought he was an Ohio man — which would make him another president buried outside his native state.


21 posted on 08/26/2009 9:16:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: tapatio

Anybody remember that POS from the Clinton Era, Larry Lawrence, who claimed W.W.II service and was buried at Arlington only to be dug up and reburied in California?

Unreal that Ted Kennedy will be buried in such a Hallowed Place with real heroes.

Is Robert Kennedy also buried there with brother Jack?

That will just one sight I won’t be able to watch.

God Almighty the Hypocrisy and Mendacity is just way too much here.


22 posted on 08/26/2009 9:16:04 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: tapatio
Given the consistency of his blood alcohol level, if they cremated him he'd burn for a week.
23 posted on 08/26/2009 9:16:19 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Clinton was our first black President ... Obama is our first French President.)
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To: tapatio
Ted Kennedy was a singular figure in American history. Very few if any, over such a long period, have done more to harm America. But Obama is committed to trying.

“Socialism hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn’t have me to run it.” - Ted Kennedy
And despite all his efforts to the contrary, it never worked in America either. Even with him as the Jackal of the Senate trying his best to implement it. May God have mercy on his soul...but we are better as a nation with him permanenetly out of that position of power and influence.

The best epitath for this leftist, socialists, corrupt old man would be for a conservative or at the least a moderate, to be elected to fill his seat by the people of Mass.

Now we have Barrack Hussein Obama and his ilk, who will surely try to use the death of Kennedy to push through the biggest socialization effort in American history - ObamaCare.

We cannot let it happen. Stand firm, speak out, lean into their storm of word and ideologies...and push them back.


THE GRIM REAPING OF AMERICA


AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY


THE STORM UNLEASHED ON AMERICA

A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH

...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.

JEFF HEAD'S WESTERN US SCENERY SLIDE SHOWS

TED KENNEDY'S "OTHER" LEGACY - LEFTIST, SOCIALIST ANTI-AMERICAN TO THE CORE

Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:

He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.

Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:

In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”

Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation

“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.” - A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.

Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:

“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”

Kennedy betrays his Senate position, President Reagan and America
:

May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.

Kennedy was either a prime instigator or author of every expansion of an increase in immigration, up to and including the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.

The death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick:

On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts .. At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, and flipped into Poucha Pond.

He escaped te car andswam to shore and walked back to the party, passing several houses and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car.

The Kennedy family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family, before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn't call police because he was in a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight.

The inquest into Kopechne’s death took place in Edgartown in January 1970. At the request of Kennedy’s lawyers, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered that it be conducted in secret. The 763-page transcript of the inquest was released four months later. Judge James A. Boyle presided at the inquest. Among Judge Boyle’s conclusions in his inquest report was the following: “There is probable cause to believe that Edward M. Kennedy operated his motor vehicle negligently … and that such operation appears to have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.”

Under Massachusetts law Boyle, having found “probable cause” that Kennedy had committed a crime, could have issued a warrant for his arrest, but he did not do so. District Attorney Dinis chose not to pursue Kennedy for manslaughter, despite Judge Boyle’s conclusions.

Kennedy pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. Kopechne's family received a small payout from the Kennedy's insurance policy, and never sued. There was later an effort to have her body exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy's family paid their attorney's bills.

In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?

While attending law school at the University of Virginia , he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959.

He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.

24 posted on 08/26/2009 9:17:30 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: tapatio

Presidents can override Arlington’s burial requirements. Obama would do so in this case.


25 posted on 08/26/2009 9:19:31 AM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: what's up
And how many Presidents?

Two

William Taft and John Kennedy

26 posted on 08/26/2009 9:20:18 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: mad_as_he$$

My Dad’s ashes are inurned in the Columbarium in Arlington.
Not really thrilled at the prospect of the Senator from Chapaquiddick being there.


27 posted on 08/26/2009 9:20:51 AM PDT by SoKatt ("Change" is not a strategy!)
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To: roses of sharon
No one should forget.

On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.” - Sen. Edward Kennedy (May 10, 2004)

If the Kennedys are smart they'll back out of this Arlington burial.

28 posted on 08/26/2009 9:21:05 AM PDT by McGruff (This administration is turning into one long Wag The Dog movie.)
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To: Jeff Head

Thank you for posting that POS’s realy history.

I wish I lived there. I protest his burying among our brave heroes


29 posted on 08/26/2009 9:21:34 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: tapatio

Tomb of the Wellknown Marxist.


30 posted on 08/26/2009 9:22:15 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: RexBeach

Ole Joe had plenty of clout when it came to protecting his kids from career ending crimes and misdemeanor.


31 posted on 08/26/2009 9:22:30 AM PDT by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Good point.

The source I found cited only Kennedy, Taft and Wilson but I believe you are right about Grant.

32 posted on 08/26/2009 9:24:19 AM PDT by what's up
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To: tapatio

Does anyone think it’s weird that Kennedy had John-John cremated and dumped in the ocean, while he gets buried in Arlington? I’ll be no one will have to hunt for his grave like they do Robert’s.


33 posted on 08/26/2009 9:25:14 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Perdogg

34 posted on 08/26/2009 9:25:58 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
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To: tapatio

When visiting Arlington, you have to have a spot to take a piss.....


35 posted on 08/26/2009 9:26:42 AM PDT by jrg
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To: tapatio
I don't care where.

So long as he's buried.

36 posted on 08/26/2009 9:26:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (It's Claire Wolfe Time.)
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To: tapatio

No room at Red Square, I guess.


37 posted on 08/26/2009 9:32:06 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: BallyBill

1950: Enters Harvard. Is expelled after he is caught paying a friend to take a Spanish exam for him.

1951: Enlists in the US army, assigned honour guard at supreme headquarters of the allied powers in Europe, in Paris. His political connections keep him out of the Korean war. Discharged in 1953 as a private first class, he re-enters Harvard.


38 posted on 08/26/2009 9:34:33 AM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: tapatio
Bury him at sea( or a river) in an old Buick!
39 posted on 08/26/2009 9:45:38 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: tapatio
Bury him at sea( or a river) in an old Buick!
40 posted on 08/26/2009 9:45:47 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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