Many Americans were disappointed in the lack of White House presence at this week’s funeral for the highest-ranking officer killed in combat since Vietnam.

#Obama bucked tradition of Nixon who attended MG Dillard’s funeral in 1970 & Bush who attended LTG Maude’s in 2001. pic.twitter.com/FpPDlot4Cc — Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) August 15, 2014

Major General Harold Greene, the 2-star general killed in Afghanistan August 5, was laid to rest Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery, according to myfoxdc.com. It was a beautiful service that was only missing one important attendee: The President of the United States. Also missing was the vice president. However, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was present, according to Fox.

Photos of the service, posted on the Internet from news services all over the globe, showed a riderless horse, the general’s children touching the casket and the flag presented to his widow by Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno.

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There were no pictures of any senior administration officials, because they weren’t there. Of course, a lot of Twitter users were outraged:

Much to say about #Ferguson… but can’t be bothered w/a fallen 2 star General… The Pres. is an abomination! #Greene pic.twitter.com/pLNlq69eyS — Defund NPR PBS & NEA (@Jarjarbug) August 15, 2014

@Jarjarbug EXACTLY! And he hasn’t done a thing to help get a Marine out of a Mexican jail for just getting lost on the border. — MIDDLE MAN (@mydata49) August 15, 2014

@mydata49 @Jarjarbug Beyond disturbing president 0 didn’t even have #halfstaff flags. — passion flower (@pikester45) August 16, 2014

@Jarjarbug @jimtstrickland — a pressing golf date was more important to that awful example of dishonor and cowardice. — Thomas O’Rourke Jr. (@tomorourke1) August 16, 2014

CORRECTION: This story has been updated to state Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel attended the funeral.

* An interesting update: A follow-up story revealed that information contained in Col. Morris Davis’ response to the tweet featured at the top of the post was deliberately misrepresented. BPR didn’t report on the past funerals the colonel tweeted about because the facts could not be confirmed at the time. Davis has since boasted on Twitter that he made those facts up.