Why A Mom Should Be Buried with her Dead Soldier Son
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Will
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She shouldn't. She's doesn't meet the qualifications necessary for
burial there. It would start a ridiculous precedent.
Kris Baker
"Will" <Felixb...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:46844a1c-773c-4084...@k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...
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> She shouldn't. She's doesn't meet the qualifications necessary
> for burial there. It would start a ridiculous precedent.
Aren't our veterans' cemeteries for soldiers and their spouses?
Why can't an unmarried man have his next-of-kin buried there?
I know, space. But why not allow the cremated remains of the
mother to be buried on top of the grave?
A friend of mine her mother's ashes to a small Oklahoma
cemetery, found her grandfather's grave, dug a small hole
and buried her mother....silently and quietly.
Kris
Will
> "Will" <Felixbird1...@aol.com> wrote in message
Veterans are buried in a V.A. cemetery at no cost for the grave,
opening charges, gravebox or gravestone. Should we also allow the
parent to be buried free? I think not. Besides in most V.A.
cemeteries, body burials are inground while cremations have walls with
niches.
BobF
[Default] On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:04:58 -0800 (PST), Will
<Felixb...@aol.com> magnanimously proffered:
>On Jan 1, 11:12?am, "Kris Baker" <parallelcoo...@ggmail.com> wrote:
>> "Will" <Felixbird1...@aol.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:46844a1c-773c-4084...@k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > She shouldn't. She's doesn't meet the qualifications necessary
>> > for burial there. It would start a ridiculous precedent.
>>
>> Aren't our veterans' cemeteries for soldiers and their spouses?
>> Why can't an unmarried man have his next-of-kin buried there?
>>
>> I know, space. ? But why not allow the cremated remains of the
>> mother to be buried on top of the grave?
>>
>> A friend of mine her mother's ashes to a small Oklahoma
>> cemetery, ?found her grandfather's grave, dug a small hole
>> and buried her mother....silently and quietly.
>>
>> Kris
>
>Veterans are buried in a V.A. cemetery at no cost for the grave,
>opening charges, gravebox or gravestone. Should we also allow the
>parent to be buried free? I think not. Besides in most V.A.
>cemeteries, body burials are inground while cremations have walls with
>niches.
Veterans *and* their spouses. My mother's cremated remains are
interred in a niche next to those of my step-father (ex-navy WWII) in
a V.A. cemetery in Southern California. It's a drive and a half, but I
visit it whenever I'm in the US.
--
RE: The Berlin Wall
Not really. I'm just being precocious and knowing how
Government usually operates when it puts up physical walls on artificial
(re: political) boundaries.
I can easily forsee the day this Southern Wall will be just as
noxious to the U.S. and the remainder of the world as the Berlin Wall was to
the Germans and to the rest of the world (outside the U.S.S.R.) for over 28
terrible years for Berliners (Aug. 13, 1961 - Nov. 9, 1989).
It wouldn't surprise me one little bit within the next 10 years
to see armed guards (and barbed wire for additional fortifications) *inside
the U.S.* gunning down people trying to flee oppression to what-is-now
Mexico and beyond.
- From "The Sayings of Roy"
Kris Baker
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Not just the veterans themselves. Spouses (even if they remarried
a non-veteran), dependent and unmarried (disabled) adult children
can also be buried in a national cemetery. In fact, *any* surviving
spouse of a veteran, whether he is buried in a national cemetery
or not, who died after Dec 1 2000, can be buried there.
http://www.military.com/benefits/burial-and-memorial/va-national-cemetery-burial-eligibility#sd
The mother is asking that she be allowed to be buried **on top of**
her son's grave (because he's buried quite deep into the ground).
If she wants to pay for it, what's the big deal?
My husband and I, as well as my father and father-in-law, have
foregone burial in a national cemetery. Maybe we could arrange
to trade. A Gold Star mother isn't good enough, but all ex-spouses
of a vet, are now eligible?
Kris
Wife and daughter of veterans
cat
> Veterans *and* their spouses. My mother's cremated remains are
> interred in a niche next to those of my step-father (ex-navy WWII) in
> a V.A. cemetery in Southern California. It's a drive and a half, but I
> visit it whenever I'm in the US.
My parents' ashes are together in a veterans' cemetery as well. My father
served during the Korean conflict, but never got closer to Korea than
Kansas.
So a woman whose son *died in war* can't join him, even though he would be
entitled to share space with a spouse or a child? Doesn't seem right.
I'm a veteran. She can have my space.