Congress and President Obama have overruled an Army decision that briefly banned Women Air Service Pilots (WASP) from being interred at Arlington National Cemetery. In 2015, Army Secretary John McHugh stopped allowing the placing of WASP veterans' ashes in an aboveground facility at the cemetery, saying their job of ferrying and testing military aircraft in the Second World War did not meet the standards for eternity at Arlington. In January, the cemetery issued a statement saying the cemetery will run out of space in 20 years and the WASPs' service, while "commendable," did not "reach the level of active duty service" required. Tiffany Miller launched an online petition to change the rules last year and said her grandmother Danforth Harmon can finally rest.
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