It's A Funeral. Get Over It.

The "backlash" over the US Air Force according Ashli Babbitt "full military funeral honors" (an honor guard, the playing of taps, and presentation of a flag to next of kin) seems to have nothing to do with the "character of her service" as of discharge.

While the Air Force hasn't disclosed the discharge type, if it was "honorable" or "under honorable conditions" -- and if it wasn't they would have just said so instead of citing "the circumstances preceding her death" in denying said "honors" -- why shouldn't she (or, rather, her loved ones) be exactly as entitled as anyone else to that stuff?

Even Charles Whitman, who shot and killed 15 people and injured 31 from a tower at the University of Texas in 1966, still got at least the flag on the coffin bit (no record, so far as I can tell, of whether there was an honor guard or playing of taps). Why? Because he was "honorably" discharged from the US Marine Corps.

I find it odd that Babbit's kin would want that kind of thing from the government she died trying to overthrow, but it doesn't seem like any kind of major expenditure, or something worth quibbling over. She did her time "honorably" or "under honorable conditions," period, end of story.