{"id":22501,"date":"2011-03-07T07:43:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T11:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22501"},"modified":"2011-03-07T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T13:16:38","slug":"frank-buckles-controversy-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22501","title":{"rendered":"Frank Buckles Controversy Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Congress is still not going to allow last World War I veteran Frank Buckles to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/mar\/6\/lawmakers-deny-last-doughboy-honor-of-lying-in-sta\/\">Washington Times<\/a>. Senators and Democrats, both,Rockefeller and Manchin, from West Virginia, Mr. Buckles home state, blame the Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner (like I do), but they&#8217;re overlooking their own Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Harry Reid who has equal say in the matter;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Boehner and Mr. Reid instead said they will ask Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to allow Mr. Buckles\u2018 family to hold a memorial service at the amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, where he will be buried.<\/p>\n<p>But neither leader explained his position not to allow the body of the longtime West Virginia resident to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda, an honor reserved \u2014 though not exclusively \u2014 for presidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike everyone else, Sen. Reid honors Mr. Buckles for his service to our country,\u201d said Reid spokesman Jon Summers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to me that the two Senators from West Virginia would put pressure on their own party&#8217;s senior member in the Senate, where they weild some measure of clout, instead of just plinking across the aisle and across the Capitol Building&#8230;that is if their primary intention is to get Buckles in the Rotunda.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa Parks was awarded the honor, certainly a soldier in the first world war and a prisoner in the second should get some measure of respect in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Call Boehner&#8217;s office at;<\/p>\n<p>H-232 The Capitol<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<br \/>\nPhone: (202) 225-0600<br \/>\nFax: (202) 225-5117<\/p>\n<p>Reid at;<\/p>\n<p>522 Hart Senate Office Building,<br \/>\nDistrict of Columbia 20510-2803<br \/>\nPhone: (202) 224-3542<br \/>\nFax: (202) 224-7327 <\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> More from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2011\/03\/honoring-wwi-troops-via-frank-buckles.html\">Laughing Wolf at Blackfive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Congress is still not going to allow last World War I veteran Frank &hellip; <a title=\"Frank Buckles Controversy Part II\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22501\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frank Buckles Controversy Part II<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}