Comments on: Flag-folding Recitations by Memorial Honor Details are Banned in Veteran Cemeteries http://military.rightpundits.com/2007/10/29/flag-folding-recitations-by-memorial-honor-details-are-banned-in-veteran-cemeteries/ Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:00:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: VeteransAffairs http://military.rightpundits.com/2007/10/29/flag-folding-recitations-by-memorial-honor-details-are-banned-in-veteran-cemeteries/comment-page-1/#comment-139691 VeteransAffairs Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:39:25 +0000 http://military.rightpundits.com/2007/10/29/flag-folding-recitations-by-memorial-honor-details-are-banned-in-veteran-cemeteries/#comment-139691 Here is another outrageous story from Riverside National Cemetery. I am including two links to newspaper articles that all veterans and their families should read. Although this is about RNC the story could national consequences. Here is the gist of the story: Sharon Hunt’s father died in Oct 2006 and was cremated and interred at RNC. He was a retired Lt Colonel in the Air Force and highly decorated. Her mother passed away in 2007 on exactly the same day as her father and almost to the hour. The plan was for the mother to be created and interred next to her father. When 50 family members and friends showed for the funeral Gil Gallo the Direcotr at Riverside National Cemetery refused to accept the urn for burial. Gallo or any of his management would speak to the family. How insensitive can a Cemetery Director be? That was a year ago and the family are still waiting for a return phone or answer to emails and letters. Nothing from Gallo. Mrs. Hunt did her own research and found out the reason for refusal is that the urn contained less than 100% of the remains. Hunt had divided her remains into keepsake urns for family members. Some of the ashes were spread at a family cemetery in Texas at the request of the decease. On the day of the funeral Gil Gallo had decided to change his policy and enforce it at that very moment. The policy of not accepting anything less that 100% of the remains was to stop people being buried in multiple national cemeteries. How absurd! That’s what databases are for. Even publicity Gallo has not contacted the family to explain his decision or apologise for the grief he has caused. A year later Mrs Hunt’s mother still remains unburied and separated from her husband of almost 60 years. http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_10922389 http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_ashes08.38a6ac9.html Here is another outrageous story from Riverside National Cemetery.

I am including two links to newspaper articles that all veterans and their families should read. Although this is about RNC the story could national consequences.

Here is the gist of the story: Sharon Hunt’s father died in Oct 2006 and was cremated and interred at RNC. He was a retired Lt Colonel in the Air Force and highly decorated.

Her mother passed away in 2007 on exactly the same day as her father and almost to the hour. The plan was for the mother to be created and interred next to her father.

When 50 family members and friends showed for the funeral Gil Gallo the Direcotr at Riverside National Cemetery refused to accept the urn for burial.

Gallo or any of his management would speak to the family. How insensitive can a Cemetery Director be?

That was a year ago and the family are still waiting for a return phone or answer to emails and letters. Nothing from Gallo.

Mrs. Hunt did her own research and found out the reason for refusal is that the urn contained less than 100% of the remains. Hunt had divided her remains into keepsake urns for family members. Some of the ashes were spread at a family cemetery in Texas at the request of the decease.

On the day of the funeral Gil Gallo had decided to change his policy and enforce it at that very moment.

The policy of not accepting anything less that 100% of the remains was to stop people being buried in multiple national cemeteries. How absurd! That’s what databases are for.

Even publicity Gallo has not contacted the family to explain his decision or apologise for the grief he has caused.

A year later Mrs Hunt’s mother still remains unburied and separated from her husband of almost 60 years.

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_10922389

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_ashes08.38a6ac9.html

]]> By: Tina Shores http://military.rightpundits.com/2007/10/29/flag-folding-recitations-by-memorial-honor-details-are-banned-in-veteran-cemeteries/comment-page-1/#comment-84149 Tina Shores Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:20:43 +0000 http://military.rightpundits.com/2007/10/29/flag-folding-recitations-by-memorial-honor-details-are-banned-in-veteran-cemeteries/#comment-84149 Rights are only for the minority now. You can't please everyone without evolving chaos. This country was founded on faith in God; loss of this faith is the beginning of self destruction; we are beginning to crumble. Rights are only for the minority now.

You can’t please everyone without evolving chaos.

This country was founded on faith in God; loss of this faith is the beginning of self destruction; we are beginning to crumble.

]]> By: Max McGehee http://military.rightpundits.com/2007/10/29/flag-folding-recitations-by-memorial-honor-details-are-banned-in-veteran-cemeteries/comment-page-1/#comment-82382 Max McGehee Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:11:39 +0000 http://military.rightpundits.com/2007/10/29/flag-folding-recitations-by-memorial-honor-details-are-banned-in-veteran-cemeteries/#comment-82382 "And the there was Max McGehee, from Tennessee, where the Cotton Blooms and Blows! All Ya'll come on down here, and see where your liberal butt goes!!!!" (my apologies to Robert W. Service) Max McGehee USA SFC Viet Nam 15 JUN 69 - 18 AUG 71 “And the there was Max McGehee, from Tennessee, where the Cotton
Blooms and Blows!
All Ya’ll come on down here, and see where your liberal butt goes!!!!”

(my apologies to Robert W. Service)

Max McGehee
USA SFC
Viet Nam 15 JUN 69 - 18 AUG 71

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