Posted: 1/24/2009 8:26:53 PM EDT
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I hope this is in the right forum. If not, I apologize, and please move it to it's proper location.
My question is this. When my father dies, who will get his flag? He's a USMC Viet Nam vet, earned his military burial, and will proudly be buried in a memorial cemetery. He's divorced, and does not plan to remarry, as far as I know. I'm his oldest son, and have an adopted older sister, who will not attend the funeral. My other two siblings are younger than I am. They will most likely both be in attendance. Thanks, kevhog. |
| These things don't happen in a vacuum. There will be discussions. I would think that as the oldest son and therefore "family representative" You would get first dibs. If your little brother wanted to receive the flag at the funeral that does not mean he has to keep it if you have things worked out ahead of time. I might ask my Dad the same question before hand. Since I was AD and he and my brother are estranged I think he would want me to have it unless his wife wanted it. Bottom line, Ask your Dad. SS |
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You need to talk to the I&I staff that is doing the service. Deaths on active duty, officers and retired Marines (sometimes Corpsmen who served their whole time on the green side family would request a mixed detail or a Marine detail, I would grant the request by Corpsmen because of connection to the Marines) are the only Marines who rate the whole detail. Normally when the detail showed up at the site of internment, the senior Marine would talk to the family to determine who would receive the flag.
If the Marine was killed in action, we normally would give the flag to the mother or wife. For Marines whose parents were divorced, there was sometimes disagreement on the flag and the purple heart, we normally would get a duplicate for the other parent. If not a silver star recipient or higher he will not be able to be interned in Arlington. |
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I don't believe he gets to buried in Arlington, just a local memorial cemetery. He's got ribbons and awards, but no purple heart that I've ever seen. He was wounded in combat twice, but he's the kind of guy that would have turned down any medal, he's just like the Drill Sergant from FMJ. I was afraid I'd get the flag, not that it's a bad thing, but I'm sure it will be very emotional.
Thanks for the answers guys, hopefully I wont have to worry about it for a long time. |
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Originally Posted By R0N
If not a silver star recipient or higher he will not be able to be interned in Arlington. You are passing bum gouge, brother! Here is the regs for interment in the Garden. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/funeral_information/guide.interment.html |
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Originally Posted By R0N
If not a silver star recipient or higher he will not be able to be interned in Arlington. You are passing bum gouge, brother! Here is the regs for interment in the Garden. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/funeral_information/guide.interment.html Try getting someone in without a least a silver star who didn't die on active duty. They have implemented controls because of space filling up. That was one of controversies that surrounded the Clinton selling of slot there, that there are regs to be buried there, but most we "rate" burial aren't allowed because of shortages of plots. |
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Originally Posted By R0N
If not a silver star recipient or higher he will not be able to be interned in Arlington. You are passing bum gouge, brother! Here is the regs for interment in the Garden. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/funeral_information/guide.interment.html Try getting someone in without a least a silver star who didn't die on active duty. They have implemented controls because of space filling up. That was one of controversies that surrounded the Clinton selling of slot there, that there are regs to be buried there, but most we "rate" burial aren't allowed because of shortages of plots. They were filling up back in '74 when I first got there.  Payback, were you at 8th & Eye?
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That's where I learned my awesome sword manual!!! Give me a gallon of milkand I'll turn it into butter, all I need is a Mameluke sword!!!  When I was a young stud at Myer I'd hang out at the same bars as y'all did as we were all looking for the same tail. We'd have our bitch fests with verbal jabs back and forth, but let some local plowboy say something and all of a sudden we're on the same team, the team with the whitewall haircuts. 
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