At Arlington, a Question of Clout and Timing
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I have been reading many articles concerning the burial at Arlington National Cemetery of retired Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr. and his wife, Ann, last week, not only in The Post ["Together in Life, and in Death," front page, July 1] but in other news publications as well, not to mention the TV news programs.
I am curious: How were the Wherleys able to be buried at Arlington a week after their untimely deaths? I feel there are lot of military people asking themselves the same question.
Several retired military people whom my husband and I know have died in the past few months, and there is always a long wait for the burial. I have read many articles rationalizing the wait times: a lack of ceremonial personnel available to participate, burials of our wonderful service members who were killed in Iraq or Afghanistan fighting for our freedom, a surge of our older retirees dying -- the list goes on. Yet a retired military man and his wife were buried there within a week of their deaths. A friend of ours, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, passed away in mid-May, but his burial will not take place until the end of August. I have seen this time frame in The Post's Obituary section countless times.
LYNN McDONALD
Alexandria
