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Last WWI Vet Buckles Will Lie in Basement at Arlington, Not Capitol Rotunda
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The last American doughboy from World War I will lie in honor in a basement chapel of the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery -- not the U.S. Capitol rotunda -- and then be interred on Tuesday. In a brief announcement, the cemetery said Army Cpl. Frank Buckles, who died at 110 on Feb. 27, will be "memorialized" and will "lie in honor" at Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater Chapel from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. for the public to pay their last respects. There is no ceremony planned in the amphitheater, even though congressional leaders said they had asked the Pentagon to allow a ...
Will Congress Let Frank Buckles, Last WWI Vet, Lie in Capitol Rotunda?
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNearly everyone agrees that Frank Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran who died last month at age 110, should be honored. Buckles' passing has been noted by leaders in his home state of West Virginia and nationally. He has been celebrated by veterans' groups, who hail him as the last link to the tens of thousands of dough boys killed in the Great War. A military funeral is planned at Arlington National Cemetery. President Obama ordered flags on federal buildings flown at half-staff on March 15, the day of the burial. Before Buckles is laid to rest at Arlington, however, his ...
Frank Buckles, Last Living US WWI Vet, Dies at 110
By not in system - AOL NewsMORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Frank Buckles was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. He would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I. Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said. He was 110. Getty Images / AP At left is Frank Buckles, then 107, after receiving the French Legion d'Honneur in 2008 during an award ceremony at the French Embassy in Washington. At ...
FBI: DC Sting Ended Before Suspect Could Flee US
By Allan Lengel - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Oct. 28) -- The FBI decided to end its sting and arrest a Northern Virginia man now charged with plotting to blow up D.C. -area subway stations because it was concerned he was about to leave the country to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to a court document and law enforcement sources. FBI agents arrested Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., on Wednesday on charges that he conspired with people he thought were al-Qaida operatives to blow up the Arlington National Cemetery, Pentagon City, Crystal City and Court House subway stations in Northern Virginia. In some other ...
Three Grave Mix-Ups Discovered After Caskets Opened at Arlington Cemetery
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyOfficials found three people buried in the wrong graves after caskets were opened at Arlington National Cemetery, the Army said Wednesday. The burial sites were opened last month as part of the ongoing investigation into shoddy records and mismatched graves at the hallowed military cemetery, The Associated Press reported. A fourth grave opened Wednesday contains the correct remains. At the request of his father, the casket of Marine Pfc. Heath Warner of Canton, Ohio, was examined and was found to be correctly marked, the AP said. Warner was killed in Iraq in 2006. Army spokesman Gary ...
Grave Mix-Ups at Arlington Could Number in Thousands
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA month after it was reported that remains at Arlington National Cemetery are buried in the wrong graves and some headstones are improperly marked, it appears that the problem is even more widespread than initially thought. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who chairs the subcommittee investigating the errors, said the number of mislabeled plots at the hallowed military cemetery could be in the thousands, The New York Post reported. An initial Army report found at least 211 instances where service members had been laid to rest in graves that bear the wrong names. But McCaskill said the Army ...
Vet Group Tempers Criticism in Arlington Scandal
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 7) -- The nation's largest veterans group tempered its criticism of the Army over the growing mismanagement scandal at Arlington National Cemetery. "At this point The American Legion has no reason to believe that the VA, or any other entity, would do a better job at Arlington National Cemetery," said spokesman Marty Callaghan in a statement. "Mistakes were made and are being corrected. It seems appropriate to us that the military should continue to be the sentinels of our nation's honored dead until it has been clearly demonstrated otherwise." Last week, AOL News quoted ...
American Legion Weighs In on Arlington Scandal
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsFor an update of the American Legion's position, click here. WASHINGTON (July 2) -- The nation's largest veterans group weighed in today on the growing mismanagement scandal at Arlington National Cemetery, saying it may be time to strip the Army of responsibility for the hallowed burial ground. "I think common sense should prevail," Phil Riley, director of The American Legion's national security and foreign relations division, said in a statement to AOL News, indicating that it may be time for the Department of Veterans Affairs to take over the cemetery's operation. The organization has ...
Should Army Surrender Arlington Cemetery to VA?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 30) -- The secretary of the Army vowed today to clean up the management mess at Arlington National Cemetery, but a spokesman for the nation's largest organization of combat veterans said it may be time to consider transferring the hallowed ground to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Veterans of Foreign Wars has not yet taken a formal position, "but [the move] would make sense," spokesman Joe Davis told AOL News. He said the VFW would support such a change "provided the transfer include all property, civilian employees, responsibility and funding, and that assigned ...
Fallen WWI Marine to Get Stateside Burial 92 Years Later
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(June 21) -- More than 90 years after George Henry Humphrey was killed in northern France during World War I and quickly buried in an unmarked grave, the fallen but not forgotten Marine is getting a proper burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Humphrey, who was 29 at the time, was killed on Sept. 15, 1918, when a machine gun bullet pierced his helmet during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. Under German fire, his fellow fighters buried him in the woods in a rural area, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His brother, Oliver, tried to find the remains, and the next year he made contact ...
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