Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens To Be Buried At Arlington National Cemetary With Military Honors. Anyone Know What The Criteria Is For Such Burials?

Sen. Ted Stevens to be buried at Arlington
By Erika Bolstad

WASHINGTON — Former Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska will be buried today in Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery, in a ceremony that is expected to bring many of his former colleagues in the Senate to his graveside.

Stephens died Aug. 9 at age 86 in a plane crash in Alaska. Four others perished in the crash.

The former World War II pilot will be buried with military honors and some of the Senate's morning business is being taken up in tribute to Stevens, the longest serving Republican senator in U.S. history.

"Ted was a legend in his own lifetime," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday morning. "He lived an incredibly full life. Most of it in service to his nation, and more specifically, to his state. His colleagues in the Senate admired and even sometimes feared him. But Alaskans loved him without any qualification. To them he was just Uncle Ted, a title that I'm sure will live on."

He devoted his entire adult life to a central mission, McConnell said: working "tirelessly and unapologetically to transform Alaska into a modern state. He was faithful to that mission to the very end."

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn., spoke of Stevens' legendary temper, and the Hulk tie he would don when he faced a tough fight in the Senate.

"Behind that tough exterior there was a heart of gold, and very emotional man," Specter said. "He didn't lose his temper, he always knew where it was."

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has proposed legislation to name a mountain and part of an ice field in Denali National Park and Preserve for the late Sen. Ted Stevens. The proposed Stevens Peak is commonly known as South Hunter Peak but is the tallest unnamed mountain in Alaska. Murkowski also has proposed naming the northern portion of the Chugach ice field the Ted Stevens Ice Field.


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