{"id":36048,"date":"2013-06-06T10:47:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36048"},"modified":"2013-06-06T10:47:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:47:18","slug":"lautenberg-to-be-planted-at-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36048","title":{"rendered":"Lautenberg to be planted at Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone wrote to us yesterday to tell us that it had been decided that the late Frank Lautenberg will be buried at Arlington after laying in State at the Capitol. From the Daily Journal<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Frank Lautenberg, the last World War II veteran to serve in the Senate, will be buried Friday morning at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

After the service [in New York City] , Lautenberg\u2019s casket will be taken by color guard to the train station in Secaucus that bears his name. The casket then will travel via Amtrak to Washington, and Lautenberg will lie in repose Thursday inside the U.S. Senate chamber.<\/p>\n

Lautenberg\u2019s casket will lie atop the Lincoln catafalque, constructed in 1865 to support the casket of Abraham Lincoln when his body lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s all well and good, he was a veteran, after all and probably earned a spot in the national cemetery. But the person who wrote us yesterday said that he’d lost his wife recently and the folks at Arlington told him that it would be a four or five month wait for her interment at Arlington. He said a friend had also deceased and his family was told the same. But, because he’s a Senator, Lautenberg jumps to the head of the line? His military service was no different than anyone else’s, so I don’t understand Arlington’s reasoning behind it. I mean, for those people who have to wait months to bury their loved ones, does Arlington have to find more dirt or something? If they can bury a Senator in a week, why can’t they bury the rest in a timely manner? It seems to me that they’re trying to discourage us regular Joes from choosing Arlington as our eternal rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone wrote to us yesterday to tell us that it had been decided that the late … Lautenberg to be planted at Arlington<\/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":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arlington-national-cemetary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048","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=36048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}