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WASHINGTON - Congress has sent President Barack Obama a bill that would allow female World War II pilots known as WASPs to continue placing their ashes at Arlington National Cemetery. During the war, Women Airforce Service Pilots were considered civilians. But since 1977, federal law granted them status as veterans. In 2015, then-Secretary of the Army John McHugh ruled that WASPs never should have been allowed in and revoked their eligibility. The legislation reverses that decision. IMHO Secretary McHugh was an idiot.
One thousand-one hundred U.S. women served as pilots for the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II; 38 died while in the WASP program.
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