{"id":26789,"date":"2016-06-11T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T03:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/female-wwii-pilots-win-battle-to-be-buried-at-arlington-national"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:34:07","slug":"female-wwii-pilots-win-battle-to-be-buried-at-arlington-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/female-wwii-pilots-win-battle-to-be-buried-at-arlington-national","title":{"rendered":"Female WWII Pilots Win Battle To Be Buried At Arlington National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdZRbnxb_KU\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am glad that the lady pilots of WWII finally won their right recently to be recognized and accepted after all these 60+ years to be buried at Arlington Cemetery. As a civilian female pilot; I truly respect these women that opened up doors for me and others so that we had a chance.<\/p>\n<p>BTW \u2014 to clarify I am not flying for the airlines; just for fun and a passion of mine.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A group of female pilots from WWII can again be buried on the U.S. military\u2019s most hallowed ground.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously approved legislation to allow Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, to be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor men, it would be tough. It\u2019s tough for girls, too,\u201d an apparent radio voice from the WWII said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/female-wwii-pilots-win-battle-to-be-buried-at-arlington-national\">Continue reading \u201cFemale WWII Pilots Win Battle To Be Buried At Arlington National\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am glad that the lady pilots of WWII finally won their right recently to be recognized and accepted after all these 60+ years to be buried at Arlington Cemetery. As a civilian female pilot; I truly respect these women that opened up doors for me and others so that we had a chance. BTW [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41272,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26789\/revisions\/41272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}