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Arlington Cemetery, nearly full, may become more exclusive
NYT, WRAL ^ | 28 May 2018 | DAVE PHILIPPS and DAMON WINTER, New York Times

Posted on 05/28/2018 5:40:09 PM PDT by shove_it

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To: shove_it

Buy adjoining land to expand.


21 posted on 05/28/2018 6:48:51 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: shove_it
Rock Creek Park Golf Course, East Potomac Park Golf Course and Langston Golf Course are all .gov golf courses. They would all make fine cemeteries.

A few years ago they were stacking our boys like cordwood in Arlington. Not sure if that place is finally organized.

22 posted on 05/28/2018 6:49:27 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Ouderkirk

One?

Heck, they can dig up that whale and make room for 15 to 20.


23 posted on 05/28/2018 7:00:35 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: wmileo

He allegedly served a few weeks snug as a bug stateside while others were dying in Korea.


24 posted on 05/28/2018 7:02:38 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Hardastarboard

Just dump his rotted corpse off a bridge


25 posted on 05/28/2018 7:15:36 PM PDT by digger48
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To: shove_it

They have been talking about this for decades. I cannot believe that they are still burying seven thousand a year at Arlington. It only became the singular super famous cemetery after the JFK burial in 1963.


26 posted on 05/28/2018 7:42:18 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: shove_it

Don’t tell the ‘tards that is was once Robert E. Lee’s farm. They’ll want to till it all up.


27 posted on 05/28/2018 8:56:56 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well, there is this “legend:”

“When Nathan Radlich’s house was burgled, thieves left his TV, his VCR, and even left his watch. What they did take was “generic white cardboard box filled with greyish-white powder.” (That at least is the way the police described it.) A spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale police said “that it looked similar to cocaine and they’d probably thought they’d hit the big time.” Then Nathan stood in front of the TV cameras and pleaded with the burglars: “Please return the cremated remains of my sister, Gertrude. She died three years ago.”Well, the next morning, the bullet-riddled corpse of a drug dealer known as Hoochie Pevens was found on Nathan’s doorstep. The cardboard box was there too; about half of Gertrude’s ashes remained. And there was this note. It said: “Hoochie sold us the bogus blow, so we wasted Hoochie. Sorry we snorted your sister. No hard feelings. Have a nice day.”

We can dream, can’t we?


28 posted on 05/28/2018 9:00:12 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Forty-Niner
“say no to McCain!!! let him get cremated and Cindy can keep him in a coffee can.”

Hills Bros?”

Chock-full-o'Nuts.

29 posted on 05/28/2018 9:44:57 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: BenLurkin

*** “Didn’t Bill Clinton get one of his cash patrons buried there even though the guy wasn’t a veteran?” ***

NOPE! (at least the one I know about)

Orville Redinbacker (sp) Tried Very Hard but he had a problem, he lived just outside a Navy Base ... We decided that if he thought he could occupy our Land ... that We could occupy his, so we did, for weeks we Partied just off his back lawn (we kept it clean, didn’t litter or mess his stuff up ... but we built Bon Fires and WE WERE LOUD!
Cops came out many times... no one went to Jail (we were JUST off his Property line, on the Beach and we only trespassed if absolutely necessary... and we thought the flashing lights just added to ambiance of our little demonstration.
Bill Clinton may have been our CNC but he was still a stinking Bag of Excrement... So was Orville


30 posted on 05/29/2018 12:50:48 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: wmileo

*** “Got to remove all of Bill Clinton’s friends from Arlington” ***

Do Tell!!! You may be My Hero!


31 posted on 05/29/2018 12:54:02 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: BenLurkin

The body of M. Larry Lawrence will be exhumed from his gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, according to the wishes of his widow. (snip)

White House aides now acknowledge that Lawrence, who died while serving as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, apparently never served in the U.S. Merchant Marines during World War II — let alone was wounded aboard a ship in the North Atlantic — reasons cited for the waiver allowing him to be bured at Arlington

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/12/08/arlington/


32 posted on 05/29/2018 12:54:16 AM PDT by donna (The California Sanctuary State is the latest method for trapping and trading slaves.)
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To: ronniesgal
say no to McCain!!! let him get cremated and Cindy can keep him in a coffee can

  ☆☆@@##

33 posted on 05/29/2018 1:30:31 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: shove_it

With federal money and using eminent domain where necessary, it should be expanded west & north to Arlington Blvd, and to the south into a small section bordering Columbia Pike. With changes to acceptance of new graves, that should give Arlington National more future growth.

Someday, in the future, there may be calls for an “extension” of Arlington National to be created somewhere. Right now eminent domain alone can expand it a bit.


34 posted on 05/29/2018 5:55:27 AM PDT by Wuli
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If McCain is buried there, I predict a lot of the vets already buried there will pack up an leave.


35 posted on 05/29/2018 6:21:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 trillion dollars.)
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To: shove_it

Bury them as they come. When it’s full, it’s full. No more elitists unless they go thru the line like anyone else.


36 posted on 05/29/2018 6:53:07 AM PDT by Rannug (When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.)
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say no to McCain!!! let him get cremated and Cindy can keep him in a coffee can.

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According to the following J. McCain doesn’t want to be buried at Arlington?

snip fwiw..

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will be buried “back where it began,” next to his
old Navy buddy Chuck Larson—not at Arlington National Cemetery where his
father and grandfather are buried.....

A Naval Academy Spokesman confirmed to the paper this week that the
81-year-old senator has a dedicated plot at the cemetery that is close to Larson.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/17/john-mccain-wants-to-buried-next-to-navy-pal-chuck-larson-not-in-arlington.html


37 posted on 05/29/2018 7:29:17 AM PDT by deport
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To: AlaskaErik

“Hills Bros?”

Chock-full-o’Nuts.”

Lolololol.....I should of thought of that! Can I be your straight man?


38 posted on 05/29/2018 10:59:09 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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