The Pledge sits at the entrance to the Women In Military Service For America Memorial.
The helicopter was flying over Middleburg on Monday when it was struck by a bullet from the ground.
National Guardsmen from the District and other states are still in the District.
The national cemetery usually hosts thousands for its annual Memorial Day remembrance. This year, ceremonies were closed to the public.
Trump tweeted that Rolling Thunder will be back in D.C. next year. That was news to the ride’s organizers.
“You can almost smell the patriotism.”
It was “not genuinely based on legitimate concerns regarding military effectiveness or budget constraints, but are instead driven by a desire to express disapproval of transgender people generally.”
“We hoped that the ill-advised ban would languish on the president’s Twitter feed, but unfortunately, he turned the tweets into a directive banning open transgender service.”
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told military leaders that the military will not make any changes to its policy regarding transgender service members until the president clarifies what he means.
While the president cited medical costs and other “disruption,” at least one administration official said it was meant to influence the 2018 elections.
