{"id":173291,"date":"2025-08-28T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173291"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:32:27","slug":"ashli-babbitts-military-funeral-honors-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173291","title":{"rendered":"Ashli Babbitt&#8217;s military funeral honors restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/babbitt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/babbitt-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/babbitt-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/babbitt-378x333.jpg 378w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/babbitt.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ashli Babbitt, U.S. Air Force veteran, was shot by, Michael Byrd, one of the Capitol Police officers as she and other protesters entered a barricaded entrance. Babbitt subsequently died from her wounds. The Air Force denied Babbitt the military funeral honors that similarly qualified veterans would get upon their death. The Air Force refenced the circumstances leading to her death as justification for denying the honors. The police officer who shot Babbitt was deemed to have acted based on law and regulation. The Air Force reversed its previous decision and granted funeral military honors to Babbitt.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From The Hill:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I understand that the family&#8217;s initial request was denied by Air Force leadership in a letter dated February 9, 2021,&#8221; Lohmeier wrote in the Aug. 15 letter shared by Judicial Watch. &#8220;However, after reviewing the circumstances of Ashli&#8217;s death, and considering the information that has come forward since then, I am persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He additionally extended an invitation to her mother and husband to meet him at the Pentagon, so he may offer his condolences.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill requested comment from the Pentagon regarding the veracity of the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot and killed by law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as she attempted to climb through a barricaded door to the Speaker&#8217;s lobby near the House chamber.<\/p>\n<p>A month after the riot, an Air Force representative under former President Biden&#8217;s administration informed her family that military funeral honors were denied for her funeral &#8220;due to the circumstances preceding her death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result, I have determined that military funeral honors would bring discredit upon the Air Force,&#8221; Brian Kelly, an Air Force lieutenant general, wrote in that letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lee, E. (2025, August 27). Air Force to provide funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. <em>The Hill<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5474030-air-force-to-provide-funeral-honors-to-ashli-babbitt\/\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashli Babbitt, U.S. Air Force veteran, was shot by, Michael Byrd, one of the Capitol Police &hellip; <a title=\"Ashli Babbitt&#8217;s military funeral honors restored\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173291\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ashli Babbitt&#8217;s military funeral honors restored<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}