collins, it reads this way -- arlington national cemetery offers its heartfelt condolences to the collinsily. their request for an exception to the burial policy at arlington naonal cemetery underwent a thorough review. while first lieutenant collins' death was tragic, and his commitment to serv the army is extremely admirable, the secretary of the army made the decision to deny the request. exceptions to the policy are rarely approved. unfortunately, burial space at arlington national cemetery is extremely limited, and service members with no active duty military service other than training do not qualify. there is a finality to that statement, the way that it reads. what next steps await, do you think? dawn: this was extraordinary circumstances to be standing on the streets, or the corner of a university of maryland college park and to have your life taken from you. because that was extraordinary, we're asking for an extraordinary exception to policy. geoff: and mr. collins, i'm told that the department of defense said that quantico national cemetery would be available to you if you pai

then the departure for the journey to arlington national cemetery.r, who is three years old this day, responds to a whispered request from his mother. as the cortez crosses the bridge over the potomac river, there is a distant view of a memorial building dedicated to another martyred president, abraham lincoln. now the last goodbye to john f. kennedy. >> the flag that has covered the casket is folded. it is passed from hand to hand by the honor guard. ♪ ♪ ♪ it is received by the widow. mrs. kennedy ignites an eternal flame at the head of her husband's grave. john fitzgerald kennedy reaches the end of his earthly journey. those he loves leave him at the great hills of arlington cemetery. the new president takes over is duties at once, for the presidency is a continuing institution. with secretary of state dean ross can out his side, he receives the distinguished leaders who attended the funeral. he expresses to them americas gratitude for their sympathy that is come from all over the world. ♪ ♪ ♪ president johnson has all along been a strong supporter

those he loves leave him at the great hills of arlington cemetery. takes over is duties at once, for the presidency is a continuing institution. with secretary of state dean ross can out his side, he receives the distinguished leaders who attended the funeral. he expresses to them americas gratitude for their sympathy that is come from all over the world. ♪ ♪ ♪ president johnson has all along been a strong supporter of john f. kennedy's policies. already he's made known he tends to press for early enactment of the late presidents civil rights bill. president johnson has traveled widely in asia, europe, africa, the americas, and knows the aspirations of their peoples he has assured the world that while defending the interest of free nations, he'lwell today weg book. ink

commemoration of this centennial of the burial of the world war i unknown soldier across town in arlington cemetery only known to god. and finally taps will be played across america by taps across america at 11:112 commemorate the centennial of that unknown soldier and finally i am privileged today to introduce the man who without him this memorial would not exist today who served with and lead with honor and compassion and integrity as the 17th chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen. [applause] >> thank you terry. is that any better? is there a way to fix the volume? i will try to speak up so everybody can hear me. it is a great honor to be here with you today. i am in particular knowledge in george and your service and what terry didn't say is he was someone who went through and five the battle of the bulge a very special american who has given back for decades to our country after his service in world war ii. thank you george. [applause] i want to say thanks to terry hamby. without his vision and without his persistence this would not have been possible. many of us that got in

must be a really big pantheon, obviously in the capital in kyiv and maybe more on the model of arlington cemetery it is obvious that there must be a temple, some kind of sacred place created in this pantheon in this cemetery, but it must be taken into account that, first of all, we have a state separated from the church, so a problem may immediately arise as to which denomination this will be the temple, secondly, part of the military personnel definitely profess not necessarily only orthodoxy, orthodox christianity, they can be greek-catholics, catholics or muslims, and they can also be atheists, so here it is worth thinking very carefully about what this temple should be, or maybe several of temples in this pantheon. that is, you adhere to the opinion that it is possible to create a pantheon and a-a several temples so that a person who practiced some of his own religion there could come and immortalize it to remember the fallen heroes according to his religion yes, i think so, because all the spiritual needs of all citizens must be satisfied, regardless of, well, actually, their confession, tha

then, a parents' plea -- the fight to have lieutenant richard collins iii buried at arlington national cemetery his murder by a white supremacist. dawn: we feel that our son was murdered in an act of terrorism, and so therefore, he should be placed at rest in arlington cemetery. geoff: and back to school anxiety -- a mother and daughter's advice for overcoming fears of returning to the classroom after covid-forced remote learning. all that and the day's headlines on tonight's "pbs news weekend."

i need all of them tok at arlington cemetery as they're coming in to d.c.hose men and women are laying in the ground in that cemetery. >> correspondent manu raju has more. last week, the republicans said it was not about the bill. in general, it was about specific amendments they didn't have considered. i wonder, will the vote this week be different? have they gotten over those hurdles? >> reporter: at the moment, the expectation is it will be different and it will pass. but any one senator can scuttle this, delay things even further, and that still has to play out. this vote last week was a surprise, because of the vote initially 84 senators voted to approve this bill. it would have just went to the house for final approval. but because of a technical error, it required it to come back to senate. and republican opponents like senator pat toomey, insisted on changes to the legislation. toomey in particular was concerned about how this budgeting is done under this proposal. what's known as mandatory spending requiring the spending to come year after year. he

the only other place in washington that affected me as deeply as the lincoln memorial did was arlington cemetery. for me, very reverent, i was just moved so deeply by the lincoln memorial. part of the reason is i grew up in montana, went to a country school, i think there were eight students, and i remember clearly on the wall in our school was a picture of president washington and a picture of president lincoln. we studied both of those presidents deeply in country school, and i do not want to take anything away from the emancipation proclamation and the whole slavery issue. that was a pivotal point in american history, but one thing that affected my family deeply was the homestead act, which was also lincoln's stroke of a pen. because of that, my family now lives instead of ohio and missouri, we live in montana. for me it was very personal. i was just enthralled with the statue, huge he is, he is very real, and i've never felt so enthralled with a president in my life. i just wanted to say that. host: thanks for the call. mr. holzer. guest: that was very moving and very on point. we all want p

the only other place in washington that affected me as deeply as the lincoln memorial did was arlington cemetery. they are both, for me, very reverent. i was very just moved, so deeply, by the lincoln memorial. part of the reason was because i grew up in rural montana, i went to a country school where there were eight students. i remember very clearly, on the wall in our school, was a picture of president washington and a picture of president lincoln. we studied both of those presidents very deeply in our country school. i don't want to take anything away from the emancipation proclamation, the whole slavery issue, that was a pivotal point in american history. but one thing that affected my family deeply was the homestead act, which was also lincoln's stroke of a pen. because of that, my family now lives instead of ohio and missouri, we live in montana. so, for me, it's very personal. i was just enthralled with those statues. he's huge, he's very real and i've never felt but so enthralled with the president in my life, so i just wanted to say that. >> tina, thanks for the. call mr. holzer? >> th

seen some local reports about that moment that you were able to share and remember your son at arlington cemeterynown soldier, vowed to visit him every year, quoting you, i could feel he was there with us, such an important moment for you both as a family. darin, how are you doing and reflecting on your son's death a year later? >> i'm doing ok, too. it was a rough weekend, she was right. and at the same time feel very blessed and honored that we were able to do that, and have that ability to honor him in that manner. you know, i have my good days and my bad days, just like kelly does, just like our girls do. and luckily or unluckily, whichever way you want to look at it, i am able to immerse myself a little bit in work and there aren't very many hours that go by that we don't -- that i don't think of him and you know, just a sense of pride and i don't know that my chest could be any more puffed out with that pride at what our son was able to accomplish, and all of those soldiers that were there with him as well. >> sandra: left behind quite a legacy fighting for this country and doing what he be

after issuing that statement he spent the day visiting his son, taylor, at his grave at arlington national cemeterybring in senator joni ernst. it seems that the other urgent most compelling question for americans to grapple with is whether it is now inevitable that afghanistan will revert to being a safe haven for terrorists. you heard mike pompeo there saying it is likely that a 9/11-style attack will emanate from that country. what do you say? >> i do agree with secretary pompeo and we've already seen that al qaeda is colluding with the taliban in afghanistan. we just saw a strike several weeks ago that took out the leader of al qaeda as he was sipping coffee on his veranda in downtown kabul. we know president biden made many promises about afghanistan and he has broken every last one of them. first one that we would keep troops in the country until all americans were evacuated. that's false. we have evacuated over 800 americans so far without the security and presence of american troops. we have seen the taliban revert to their old techniques in dealing with women and girls in afghanistan. wome

next to arlington national cemetery in the mid-1930s. it's not well known but he was the executive officer. he built the old post chapel. so many of you have gone there for weddings and funerals. then he became the commanding officer and where you go to patton hall the officers club at fort myer. that was his administrative headquarters from 1938 to 1940. what happened to erwin rummel between the wars? he is retained in a miniaturized german army the reich fair only a hundred thousand men. you know you had to be the cream of the crop of an officer to be retained in that german army. he has many assignments all of which he handles is extremely well and then in 1937, he writes his memoirs infantry attacks. now when you watch the movie patton and patent is there in north africa towards the beginning of the movie and he's asleep in that luxurious bed, and he is a book spread out on top of his chest. when sergeant meeks and the aid come in to wake him up saying general wake up. we just got word from intelligence that pat or that rummel is goi

the the children was i if i die and you're at the funeral, i guess he new it would be at arlington national cemetery and he said and if you're really feeling overcome with emotion step outside the tent look up at the highest tree you can see and it will be waving and and that will be me that will be me and you'll know that i'm with you and that's what made me tearful. it was just so beautifully done this. it's an incredible thing. i mean it's in interestingly i had also found a letter that he wrote as kids shortly before that where his tone was a little more upbeat and said i think everything's going to be fine. but you know at a moment like this it's natural to take stock of everything and i just want you to think about i want you to know what kind of people i want you to be when you grow up. i want you to have these qualities of courage and integrity and so forth. so in a way he's doing the same thing in that letter, but it's presented differently and then he he went back to his essentially isolation chamber. i mean not not exactly so but but he was hold up at hangar s in cape canaveral because th