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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

House backs military burial honor for women pilots

      
A man pauses at a grave during Memorial Day celebrations at Arlington National Cemetery
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted unanimously on Tuesday to allow women pilots from World War Two to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, the vast military cemetery just outside Washington.
The vote was 385-0.

If passed by the Senate and signed into the law, the measure would allow the cremated remains of about 1,000 women who served as Women's Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, during World War Two, to be buried there.

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