Reply #24: sorry, America: he's still your boy...

[NorthernSpy]

That law was put in place to keep McVeigh out of Arlington. I thought it was a bad law then, and I think it's a bad law now.

The Soviets also used to rewrite history in exactly this fashion -- burying people with honors and digging them up again later as ideological propriety demanded. For a time, they had a nice little game of musical chairs going with the Kremlin's bit of graves-space.

The bottom line is this: we sent Wagner -- like McVeigh himself -- to war when he was a very, very young man. He did what we demanded of him. Afterward, he was a profoundly disturbed, violent, murderous man. So yeah, I can see how we'd like to pretend that his service to us never happened; it's just so much tidier that way. It leaves fewer things to explain to Arlington's visitors. We're omitting only a small portion of truth.



It's still lying.