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Head panel
A component part of the casket interior that is inside the head portion of the cap; no distinction is made between the
head panel and the foot panel in full couch caskets.
Headstone
Upright slab of white marble of approved design and specification, appropriately inscribed.
Hearse
Outmoded term for funeral coach.
Hermetically sealed
Airtight; impervious to external influence, completely sealed by fusion or soldering.
Hinge cover (skirt)
That portion of the casket interior covering the hinges that attach the casket cap to the casket body; usually extends
from the roll and becomes a part of the body lining.
Historically significant items
Historically significant items comprise historical properties and other articles of historical significance not specifically
designated as historical properties. Historically significant items include but are not limited to weapons, military
equipment, flags, works of art, unit and individual decorations, and battle streamers. They also include other objects,
except official records, that constitute relics or national significance to the United States or foreign armed forces. An
item may have historical significance because it is associated with an important person, event, or place, because of
traditional association with a military organization, or because it is a representative example of military equipment.
Replicas, models, and dioramas may be considered historically significant items. Athletic trophies, prizes, unit awards,
and other item of transitory significance, or of morale or sentimental value, but not pertinent to the history, lineage, or
traditions of the owning agency or of the United States or of foreign armed forces, or the military history in general,
are not considered to have historical significance within the meaning of this regulation.
Historical properties
Historical properties are historically significant items that—
a. Have been designated historical properties by the Chief of Military History, an installation commander, or the
commander of a military organization or
b. Have not been so designated but which because of their age or obvious historical significance are inherently
historical properties. Questions concerning the applicability of this definition to specific historically significant items
should-be referred to the Chief of Military History.
Home
A person’s legal or permanent residence as distinguished from place of temporary abode.
Home station
The permanent location of active duty units and Reserve Component units (for example, location of armory or Reserve
center). See also active duty; Reserve Components. (Joint Pub 1–02)
Honorarium
An unsolicited gift, usually an honorary payment for professional services.
Honorary casketbearers (honorary pallbearers)
Friends or members of a religious, social or fraternal organization who act as an escort or honor guard for the
deceased. (May do not carry the casket.)
Hostile casualty
A person who is the victim of a terrorist activity or who becomes a casualty “in action.”“In action” characterizes the
casualty as having been the direct result of hostile action, sustained in combat or relating thereto, or sustained going to
or returning from a combat mission provided that the occurrence was directly related to hostile action. Included are
persons killed or wounded mistakenly or accidentally by friendly fire directed at a hostile force or what is thought to be
a hostile force. However, not to be considered as sustained in action and not to be interpreted as hostile casualties are
injuries or death due to the elements, self-inflicted wounds, combat fatigue, and except in unusual cases, wounds or
death inflicted by a friendly force while the individual is in an absent-without-leave, deserter, or dropped-from-rolls
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