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Arlington National Cemetery
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Arlington National Cemetery, 420 acres (170 hectares), N Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; est. 1864. More than 60,000 American war dead, as well as notables including Presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, Gen. John J. Pershing, and Admiral Robert E. Peary are interred here. Burial in Arlington is limited to active, retired, and former members of the armed forces, Medal of Honor recipients, high-ranking federal government officials, and their dependents. There are commemorative monuments, including the Tomb of the Unknowns (see Unknown Soldier, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Tomb of the, form of memorial to a nation's war dead, adopted by many countries after World War I. The

Tomb of the Unknowns, a memorial to the American dead of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, is in Arlington
..... Click the link for more information. ). The cemetery is part of "Arlington," the former estate of the Custis and Lee families, and includes Arlington House, now part of Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, 28 acres (11 hectares), NE Va., in Arlington National Cemetery; est. 1955. Formerly called the Custis-Lee Mansion, it is a memorial to the Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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Arlington National Cemetery
final resting place for America’s war heroes. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 95]
See : Burial Ground
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Summary: Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral is expected to take place on Saturday, with his burial at the Arlington Cemetery.
Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral to be on Saturday by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)
Arlington Cemetery, which is dotted with countless white crosses marking the resting places of the fallen, is reserved for former military or historic figures, soldiers, US presidents and Supreme Court justices.
Kennedy funeral arrangements revealed by AFP / AFP American Edition
Arlington Cemetery is the final resting place for 330,000 military personnel, including 461 soldiers killed in Iraq and 93 killed in Afghanistan.
Iraq's Maliki honors fallen US soldiers by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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