ARLINGTON — Retired Major General Edmund G. Ripper was laid to rest on Thursday, and per the wishes outlined in his will, he was joined and forever entombed with copies of all of the PowerPoint slides that helped him throughout his 30-year career.

“It’s not the first time we’ve had such a ... voluminous request,” said Miles O’Henry, a member of the Veterans Cemetery staff responsible for ensuring a decedent’s requests are carried out. “We’ve buried a person with his cat, plenty of medals, a necklace of severed human ears.”

“And now, we’ve buried a man with thousands of sheets of paper.”