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The cemetery, with headstones bearing significant names like Collins and Ditto, will begin selling plots for the first time ...
Within weeks, Mary Lee petitioned Congress to examine the federal claim to Arlington and estimate the costs of removing the bodies buried there. Her proposal was bitterly protested on the Senate ...
Two days after his death, James Parks was laid to rest on Aug. 23, 1929, in what is now Section 15, Grave 2 at Arlington National Cemetery overlooking Washington, D.C.
Since 1864, Arlington National Cemetery has served as the nation's military cemetery honoring those who served. Located across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in Arlington County ...
Here’s a look at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Facts Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, contains the remains of more than 400,000 people from the United States and 13 other ...
The creation of Arlington National Cemetery, on this day in history, June 15, 1864, began with the seizure of Robert E. Lee's Virginia home after he defected to the Confederacy in the Civil War.
From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ground it is today.
On this day in history, Nov. 25, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, after a somber and nationally televised funeral process.
Arlington National Cemetery is one vast history book, ... About 400,000 veterans are buried there. Service, not necessarily heroism, ... Congress should make some rules. The Editors.
The Confederate monument was set up in 1914, 14 years after Congress allowed Confederate soldiers to be buried at Arlington. More than 400 Confederates are buried in the cemetery, according to the ...
Several Democratic members of Congress are pushing for Arlington National Cemetery to release its incident report on an alleged altercation between Trump campaign staffers and a cemetery official.
Angela Spraul and her daughter, Ava, 4, sit at the grave of her husband John Spraul, U.S. Navy, who died Feb. 28, 2013, at Section 60 on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery on May 25, 2015 ...