Arlington National Cemetary
150 Years of Arlington
On June 15th, 1864 the first burials were conducted on the grounds of Arlington House. The house and grounds had been seized by the Government from Robert E. Lee and his wife Mary Ann Curtis. The house had been built by George Washington Parke Curtis, Mary’s father and the grandson of George Washington as a […]
Arlington National Cemetery; 150 years anniversary
On June 15th, 1864, Congress approved the use of Robert E. Lee’s estate, which overlooked the city of Washington, as a national cemetery. So began 150 of history being buried beneath those grounds. The Stars and Stripes has written a couple of articles about the history of the plantation. For example, they tell about Jim […]
Memorial Day
I can get a great deal on a car in the next few days. Electronics are on sale. Hotel’s are booked. It’s the beginning of summer! All the big networks are wrapping up the TV viewing season. Schools across the country are out or are counting the few remaining days. What I haven’t seen […]
Arlington clean up
Green Thumb, Ex-PH2 and Pinto Nag send us a link to MSN about how the folks at Arlington National Cemetery has decided to change their policy on mementos left graveside in Section 60, the newest section of markers. Needless to say, the families are pretty upset. From the Washington Post; The changes began in August […]
Together for eternity
Hack Stone sends us a link to the story of James Sizemore and Howard Andre who were friends in college and died together as the crew of a Douglas A-26 Invader in Laos in 1969. Last year a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command task force reached the crash site and recovered the two […]
Gina Gray; Arlington whistleblower’s ordeal
Dana Milbank in the Washington Post tells the story of Gina Gray, an actual whistleblower, as opposed to the pretend whistleblowers we’ve read about in the media lately. Gray was a fairly new employee at the Deparment of Defense who tried to tell her superiors about the mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery and she was […]
Lautenberg to be planted at Arlington
Someone wrote to us yesterday to tell us that it had been decided that the late Frank Lautenberg will be buried at Arlington after laying in State at the Capitol. From the Daily Journal; Frank Lautenberg, the last World War II veteran to serve in the Senate, will be buried Friday morning at Arlington National […]
Oh crap… Perfect Timing or What?
Via Doc Bailey and FB. Blame him! Up to 64,000 Graves at Arlington Misidentified or Misplaced, Army Report Finds ARLINGTON, Va. – Thousands of grave markers at Arlington National Cemetery may need to be replaced or added to accurately account for the dead, following a meticulous Army review of each of the nearly 260,000 headstones […]
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