docwebster ([personal profile] docwebster) wrote2004-03-04 02:34 pm
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*BEAM*

For those I haven't told yet, me grandpappy's ashes are going to be interred at Arlington National Cemetery. *BEAM*
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[identity profile] christine9600.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
That's very cool. Congratulations to you and him!

[identity profile] eleri.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
coolies

[identity profile] stypica.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
anytime we'd be marching from chapel to columbarium, I would always get metallica's "sanitarium" in my head - "CooollumBARiUUUmm"

(was in the 3rd infantry and did sometimes 3 or 4 funerals a day in Arlington - that walk is a *loong* one, but it is a beautiful park. Your gramps will be in good company:)

[identity profile] pagawne.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
I think Gen. R.E. Lee would approve. ( What most people don't realize is that Arlington Cemetery is what was at one time the front yard of the Lee family home.)

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
I was once considered for the 3rd Herd. I immediately made myself forget how to march.

I wanted to make work for other burial details, not be on one myself.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
Great news! Sucks about the loss, but that's quite an honor.

[identity profile] stypica.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
heh, I kinda went the other way - went in to be a ranger - after 2 months hanging out waiting for RIP to start (after airborne school) I looked around and realized "wow, this is *not* who I want to be..." I took the opportunity when it came. It was an interesting experience - completely different kinds of stress. I wouldn't do it again, but no regrets either.

[identity profile] dethinwntr.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
What an honor. Congrats to your family!

[identity profile] fimbrethil.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
That's cool.

[identity profile] at1guy.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
May your grandpappy rest easy among his fellow comrades in arms.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL! Guess where I ended up?

3rd Battalion (Airborne), 75th Regiment (Ranger)

We may have passed in the night...

[identity profile] tsjafo.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
*Salute*

[identity profile] dandelion-diva.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
*nodnod* What he said.

Gessi

Can I jusmp on this "me too"??

[identity profile] jarlsberg71.livejournal.com 2004-03-05 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
An honour well deserved indeed.

[identity profile] rubber-shirt.livejournal.com 2004-03-05 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good news. :)
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