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Lt. Col. Caroline Jensen, USAFR, makes remarks during a memorial service, at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, for Elaine Danforth Harmon, who served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II, after her burial with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Sept. 7, 2016. Harmon's family worked since her death in April of 2015, at 95 years old, to reverse a U.S. Army decision, that same year, to revoke the eligibility for WASPs for interment at Arlington. The WASPs, a paramilitary organization that ferried military aircraft, and towed aerial targets, were awarded military status in 1977 and determined to be eligible for interment in 2002. The WASPs, a paramilitary organization that ferried military aircraft and towed aerial training targets, were awarded military status in 1977 and determined to be eligible for interment in 2002. The bill reestablishing their eligibility, championed in the House of Representatives by Rep., and former Air Force fighter pilot, Martha McSally, R-Ariz. 2nd District, passed Congress unanimously and was signed into law by President Barack Obama this year. Jensen organized an effort for the flag, which flew over the Capitol the day the bill was passed and was presented to the family at the funeral by an Air Force Honor Guard, to be flown in aircraft piloted by female USAF pilots who kept a logbook of personal messages honoring Harmon and the WASPs. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)