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Arlington burials top 100000 mark at national cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery reaches a milestone with about 104000 burials, amid plans to increase capacity by 1970 as weekly interments rise. The piece recounts the cemetery’s Civil War origins and its transformation into a national shrine near Washington D.C. It notes land management studies to gain space, and briefly mentions Arlington’s historical ties. Also notes Air Force trainee completion for radio maintenance training at Lackland and Keester bases.
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Washington
Arlington National Cemetery
Virginia
D.C
Army Quartermaster ' sGeneral
Eddington
United States
Robert Howser
Calo Enists
New World
John Parke Custis
George Washington
Custis
George Washington Parke
Robert E. Lee
Unioes
Bull
Arlington
Air
Tian David W. Bushong
Norman W. Bushong
Drayer
Lincoln Sesquicenten Commission
Indiana University
Lincoln
Crasford
Educational National Cemetery
William Run
Chrisman
67Th Penntesylvania Infantry
John J. Pershing
Phillip H. Sheridan
Henry I. Arnald
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Charles Wilkes
Antarctic
William Io' Ward Taft
Maine
Havana
Clarence