{"id":93883,"date":"2019-12-30T09:55:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=93883"},"modified":"2019-12-30T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T13:55:54","slug":"arlington-cemetery-policy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93883","title":{"rendered":"Arlington Cemetery Policy Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/old-guard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-93884 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/old-guard-500x325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/old-guard-500x325.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/old-guard-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/old-guard-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/old-guard.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2019\/12\/27\/enlisted-medal-honor-recipients-pows-can-now-have-full-honor-burials-arlington.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military.com reports<\/a> that a change in policy now allows enlisted Medal of Honor recipients and POWs to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors, regardless of rank.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Medal of Honor\u00a0recipients and prisoners of war are entitled to burial with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery, regardless of rank, under the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act signed into law last week by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>As of Dec. 20, when Trump signed the bill into law, the service secretaries must provide burials with full military honors to enlisted recipients of the Medal of Honor or the prisoner-of-war medal who in the past were &#8220;not entitled to full military honors by the grade of that veteran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The previous rules restricted full honors at Arlington in-ground burials to officers, warrant officers, senior noncommissioned officers and service members killed in action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military.com reports that a change in policy now allows enlisted Medal of Honor recipients and POWs &hellip; <a title=\"Arlington Cemetery Policy Change\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93883\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arlington Cemetery Policy Change<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":93884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arlington-national-cemetary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93883","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93885,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93883\/revisions\/93885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}