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Oct 18, 2013 · The cadets were from Ireland, fresh-faced 18- and 19-year-olds who, just a day earlier, had been whisked from their barracks on a remote, wind-swept plain in County Kildare to travel, along with ...
Mar 12, 2024 · "Your honor guard made me feel proud to tears," wrote Frank Gulland, a salesman from Ohio, The Associated Press reported ahead of the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's funeral.
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Jul 11, 2023 · Sadly, just five months after Kennedy's historic visit to Ireland, on Nov 22, 1963, JFK was assassinated. Three days later at his state funeral at Arlington Cemetery, in Virginia, 26 Irish cadets ...
Oct 5, 2013 · The teenage Irish cadets who were invited to the funeral of John F. Kennedy at Arlington cemetery at the special request of Jacqueline Kennedy remember that solemn day vividly 50 years after it ...
Jun 20, 2020 · After the assassination, and recalling Kennedy's fascination with the drill, Jacqueline Kennedy requested that Ireland send a contingent of cadets to the funeral to execute it graveside during interment.
Dec 2, 2013 · The Nov. 25 wreath-laying ceremony by the cadet class fell on the 50th anniversary of the JFK funeral and burial. The 10-minute remembrance at the Kennedy gravesite cumulated a day that found the ...
Nov 22, 2021 · The only foreign military to ever form such a guard of honor at the funeral of a US President, the cadets were present at the special request of First Lady Jackie Kennedy, who knew how much that specific salute had impressed her husband when he first witnessed it in Ireland five months earlier.
