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To: Yaelle
There probably have been removals. My mother in law was buried in Arlington in October 2016, as the spouse of a veteran. Her husband is still living. He had to sign an agreement that he would be buried with her. If not, she would have to be removed and buried elsewhere, at our expense, of course.

This is a different situation, but there were a couple of other stipulations in the agreement that could cause removal. For instance, if the body was cremated, you had to swear that 100% of the cremains would be buried. No keeping a memento of the person in a little vial. If they discovered that less than 100% was buried, you would have to remove and inter elsewhere.

I don't know if it's the same for all national cemeteries, but that is the situation in Arlington.

46 posted on 12/23/2017 9:44:31 AM PST by RightField
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To: RightField

Interesting. I do think wives alongside deserve to be there, but what was RFK, to say nothing of Teddy, doing there, other than nepotism?


52 posted on 12/23/2017 12:59:24 PM PST by Yaelle
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