[NLA] "breaking news"

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Jay,

It wasn't long to read at all and thanks for taking the time to post. 

 Hopefully, you hook up with the staff person who might be interested in this 
topic, OR you find the person who the policy-maker listens to, OR i am sure 
there are other ways...  Thanks for mentioning the obvious, it isn't always 
obvious.

A couple of weeks ago a friend wrote an op-ed in the "Washington Post" about 
a "grave injustice:" her mother, a WW2 vet (WASPS) was being denied a funeral 
with "full military honors" at Arlington National Cemetery.  Friday, June 14, 
Flag Day, her mother was inurned at Arlington with "full military honors."  I 
was there, I saw it, I was thrilled.  My friend made it happen, she worked in 
Washington a long time.

I think you have to have an insider's knowledge of Washington's social 
structure (congress, media, lobbying groups, info on who talks with whom) to 
get things accomplished, it isn't obvious from the outside.

Andrea