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Article: SEN. KENNEDY TO BE BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

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August 27, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's American Forces Information Service issued the following press release:

Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery near his brothers, Defense Department officials said here today.

Kennedy, who died yesterday after a long battle with brain cancer, is eligible for in-ground interment, officials said.

"He served in the Army, and he was an elected official of the U.S. government," an official said, speaking on background. "No [eligibility] waiver was needed."

Kennedy served in the Army from 1951 to 1953. He will be buried near the grave of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968. ...

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