Goodbye Dad: Heartbroken Family Of Highest Ranking Soldier Killed By 'Insider' In Afghanistan Ambush Kiss His Casket As He Is Buried With Full Honors At Arlington -- Daily Mail
* A service featuring full military honors was held for Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday
* Major Greene was shot by an Afghan military policeman in an ambush on two weeks ago
* He was the highest-ranking Army officer to die in Afghanistan
* His killer was hiding in a bathroom waiting for Greene and 20 other military personnel
The highest-ranking U.S. military officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War was buried with full honors Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery in a ceremony attended by his family and platoons of fellow warriors.
Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene was killed Aug. 5 when a gunman believed to be an Afghan soldier opened fire at a military academy near Kabul.
During the ceremony, Greene's adult son tightly clasped the hands of his mother and sister as soldiers folded the flag that had draped his father's casket. While the U.S. Army Band played 'America the Beautiful,' Army First Lt. Matthew Greene handed a tissue to his mother, who dabbed at her eyes.
The 55-year-old two-star general went to Afghanistan in January. It was his first deployment to a war zone.
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My Comment: I know that he is on vacation .... but considering the fact that U.S. Maj. Gen. Harold Greene is the highest ranking officer in the U.S. military to be killed in a war zone since the Vietnam war .... President Obama as Commander in Chief should have attended this funeral.
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