First Same-Sex Spouse Buried in National Military Cemetary!
As she knelt on the ground and pressed the headstone into the soft soil at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon, Linda Campbell ran her fingers over the engraved letters of her wife's name: Nancy Lynchild. She traced the grooves marking the date of her passing: December 22, 2012. She gazed at the symbol above her beloved's name: a dancing Sandhill Crane.
"It was closure," Linda said about the stone-setting ceremony held on Tuesday, September 3 in honor of her wife. "We helped Nancy get to the end of this journey. And I know she's well on her way into the next journey. She needed to be laid to rest."
The ceremony served as a well-earned release for Linda Campbell, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who was partnered with Nancy for 17 years. After months of petitioning for Nancy to be buried in a military cemetery, Linda was finally placing the head stone on her wife's plot, surrounded by the people who made the day possible. Nancy Lynchild is the first-ever same-sex spouse of a veteran to be buried in a national military cemetery.
http://www.freedomtomarry.org/story/entry/with-you-always-letters-to-my-wife
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