My View, from Fox 13's John Wilson

Some officious bureaucrat in the political quagmire we call Washington made an incredible mistake this week that instantly turned 25 million veterans against the U.S. government.  They were steaming, threatening civil disobedience to the point of being arrested.

The veterans said they would not stop reciting a very moving narrative that veterans groups have been using for years for military funerals.  They do it when the flag is folded. 

There are 13 folds, and every fold carries a powerful description and references things we should be thinking about: Heart, country, life and faith -- and it covers both Jewish and Christian soldiers. An atheist would only have to request silence while the flag is folded.  So what's the problem?

The National Cemetery Association, acting on a letter from the VA that started with a complaint to the White House, ordered veterans to stop saying anything during the flag folding, like the regular U.S. military does here.

Vets were outraged and flooded Washington with 200,000 e-mails and phone calls, and it was all knee-jerk because the complaint was about a typo.
There was only one complaint, it was sent to White House, which sent it on to the VA, which sent it to the National Cemetery Association.  And by the time it got there, it was nothing like the original complaint.

What they all failed to explain is, exactly what the complaint was not.  It was about a typo on a printed flyer, passed out by a veterans group in Riverside, California at a funeral.

VA director Steve Muro tried to clarify the complaint to the National Cemetery Association and told them handouts should not be circulated anymore.  And to clarify, Muro said the only time 'The Meaning of Each Fold' is authorized is when next of kin arranges for military honors and requests the reading.

The first mistake was made by White House staff or lawyers by not making it clear exactly what the complaint was really about.  And here's what they all missed.
Someone wrote that there is a gross error in a handout, which says the 11th fold "glorifies the gods Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."  Of course, it should have read "the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

And there is another fold for Christian soldiers.  It ends with "In God we trust." 

Political correctness kicked in and the National Cemetery Association said just ban all the readings about the folds.  They finally came to their senses and told the veterans to keep on doing what  they were doing.

Families can have any text recited, or none.  Some nameless, bureaucratic zealot who couldn't wait to make it political caused this debacle and is nowhere to be found.

They picked the wrong group to mess with here because nobody has given more to this country than the vets and their families. 

That's My View.