RB TexLa
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Wed Sep-05-07 10:26 AM
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| Question for veterans or active. You can choose what flag they use when you die, right? |
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No one chooses their state flag or ancestral flag?
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| Crabby Appleton
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Wed Sep-05-07 10:57 AM
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| 1. The VA provides a US Flag for burial purposes |
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upon request using VA Form 21-2008 http://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/VBA21-2008.pdfthe VA doesn't provide anyother kind of flag. |
| RB TexLa
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Wed Sep-05-07 11:13 AM
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| 2. I guess you have to provide a different one if you want. My grandfather told me about his uncle's |
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coffin after he died in WWI. When they took up the American flag the Irish flag was wrapped under it and it was left on and buried with him. None of the family would accept the American flag, this was due to President Wilson's lie at the beginning of the war that the US would support a free Ireland. He got the Irish in America to fight and die and then just gave us a big FU.
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