Rep. Senators Want American Remains Repatriated Back The To U.S. From Tripoli

[twyacht]

Why is it Dems. never initiate legislation like this? But it is gaining support....finally.....

http://www.realmil.com/u-s-senators-call-for-repatriation-of-remains-in-tripoli/

U.S. Senators Call For Repatriation Of Remains In Tripoli

In the wake of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s death, and while the Libyan government is in the midst of transition, US lawmakers are redoubling their calls for the repatriation of the remains of 13 sailors buried near Tripoli where they were killed in 1804.

Senators Dean Heller (R-NV), John Boozman (R-AR) and Scott Brown (R-MA)  introduced the legislation for the repatriation on Tuesday, calling for US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to have the remains exhumed, identified, and buried in a military cemetery in the United States. Any unidentified remains would be buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

The sailors were killed during what Americans know as the First Barbary War when the USS Intrepid exploded in Tripoli harbor. The sailors currently lie in burial sites within Tripoli.

“Our nation has a responsibility to make sure that any fallen member of the Armed Forces is treated with respect. For more than two hundred years, these sailors have laid to rest in a cemetery on foreign soil. It’s past time that we give these men a proper military burial in the country they died defending,” said Senator Heller.

The legislation, a version of which cleared the US House of Representatives earlier this year, would cover five US sailors buried in a mass grave in Tripoli’s Protestant Cemetery, and another eight buried in a mass grave near the walls of Tripoli Castle.

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They died fighting Barbary Pirates, who were Mooslem....Gee,....207 years later....go figure...

IMHO, get them out of that Mooslem cesspool, and back to Arlington. It's been long enough. Needless to say the maint. of the site has not been worthy of these American Soldiers....

Let's bring them home.

[TAB]

Actually, if it was us that barried them there, I say let them rest in peace.
 

[Timothy]

Actually, if it was us that barried them there, I say let them rest in peace.
 

If it were just about anywhere else on the planet, I'd tend to agree with you but, Libya is only going in one direction since we helped take down our little sock puppet dictator!

Get 'em home!

[twyacht]

The crypt/internment location is (pic at link), been neglected,vandalized, and not worthy of American Soldiers, and I would not want it subject to any more mistreatment.

Like Timothy posted, if these American remains were in another country,....I would also agree to let them stay....

Google American Military Cemeteries in Europe. They are immaculate.

[Timothy]

The crypt/internment location is (pic at link), been neglected,vandalized, and not worthy of American Soldiers, and I would not want it subject to any more mistreatment.

Like Timothy posted, if these American remains were in another country,....I would also agree to let them stay....

Google American Military Cemeteries in Europe. They are immaculate.

They're also considered sovereign American territories!  I doubt that would be honored in the run of the mill, third world sh*thole.

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[Solus]

Even if we let them be, it is not beyond possibility that the new regime won't be prone to giving them much respect.

[santahog]

Bring em home..

[Magoo541]

Bring em home..

+1

And if the .gov, or current excuse for one, resists lets see how they would handle foreign aggression in their current state.

[fightingquaker13]

+1

And if the .gov, or current excuse for one, resists lets see how they would handle foreign aggression in their current state.

Right now they love us, or will pretend to (tune in next week for a progress report). If what we want is a few bodies who died invading Libyian soil 200 years ago? Well they would be the world's biggest idiots if they didn't spring for the shovels. Of course, this is the Middle East.
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