THE PENTAGON — The parent company of the popular Budweiser beer brand announced Monday it had reached a deal with military officials to acquire the naming rights to Arlington National Cemetery, sources confirmed.
Although the dollar amount was not disclosed, a spokesperson for inBev/Anheuser-Busch told reporters that the nation's most hallowed resting grounds would now be known as “Anheuser-Busch National Cemetery at Arlington.”
In a statement, released in French from the company’s headquarters in Belgium, inBev noted that, “Anheuser-Busch and dead soldiers are both quintessentially American icons, and the synergy of mixing them for all eternity was totally obvious.”
