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Memorial Day at Arlington to honor Unknown Dead and nation’s peacetime aims
The piece outlines Memorial Day observances at Arlington National Cemetery with the Unknown Soldier’s tomb as focal point. It notes President Coolidge and cabinet wreathing the tomb, Peace aims, and calls for national unity, as well as a future Arlington Memorial Bridge project and memorials to Dewey Harding and women’s service. It emphasizes devotion to liberty justice and peace under divine providence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dickinson Sherman
New American Shrine
Arlington National Cemetery
Itn Patriotic ‘Sons
Arlington
President Coolidge
Ike
Stars and Stripes
Brotherhood of Man
Coolidge
Washington
White House
United States
Potomac Valley
George Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Capitol
Red Cross
Harding
Lincoln
Republic
Potomac
Arlington Memorial Bridge
Congress
Mount Vernon
Llea
George Washington
Major L'Enfant
Washington-Lee
Arlngton
Robert E. Lee
Virginia
Union
Joe" Wheeler
West Point
New Bridge
President
Miles
Thomas W. Higginson
George Dewey
Washington Cathedral
Wilson
War Department
Bethlehem Chapel
Admiral Deweyng
Whbur
Dewey
Stanile
Marion
Harding Memorial Association
National Fine Arts Commission
Paul Cret
Milladelphia
Adgerton Swartwout
New York
John Russeet Pope
Henry Hornbostel
Pittsburgh
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
War Weeks
Charles M. Schwab