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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 2011
Page
4
The Mini Page highlights Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia near Washington. It notes Memorial Day customs with the 3rd U.S. Infantry placing flags, half staff rules around services, and the burial of over 300,000 service members and more than 3,800 former slaves in Section 27.
Arlington House built by George Washington Parke Custis became the Robert E. Lee Memorial. Lee served in the Civil War and never returned to the house. The property supplied land for a Union soldiers cemetery and later became a farm for freed people. Taft and Kennedy are buried at Arlington, with 19 astronauts and 62 foreigners also interred. Pierre LEnfant grave stands as DC design legacy.
The Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery is guarded constantly by The Old Guard since 1948. It honors unidentified service members from World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, the latter now empty. Joe Biden laid a wreath on Memorial Day 2010 with Sgt. Alfred Lanier.
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