Thursday, January 24, 2013
Cemetery will be closed to vehicle traffic until 1 p.m. Saturday.
Not long before Christmas, volunteers with Wreaths Across America placed wreaths at about 112,000 gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery. Saturday, the cemetery needs volunteers to help clean them up. The cemetery's welcome center will open at 7 a.m. for volunteers; they will be briefed on the cleanup plan shortly before 9 a.m. at the Memorial Amphitheater. The cleanup should last until about 1 p.m. The cemetery will be closed to vehicles, including those with permanent passes, during that time. Due to limited parking, the cemetery encourages volunteers to use Metro. The cleanup will take place regardless of weather, according to an Arlington National Cemetery news release. Volunteers are encouraged to wear gloves, comfortable shoes and…
Sunday, November 11, 2012
President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day.
President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2012. Read the full remarks by the president at Arlington National Cemetery, as released by the White House. The ceremony began at 11:36 a.m. Sunday: Thank you so much. Please, everybody, be seated. Good morning, everyone. Thank you, Secretary Shinseki, for a lifetime of service to our nation, and for being such a tireless advocate on behalf of America’s veterans, including your fellow Vietnam veterans. To Rick Delaney; to Vice President Biden; to Admiral Winnefeld; Major General Linnington; our outstanding veteran service organizations; our men and women in uniform –- Active, Guard and Reserve -- and most of all, …
Friday, May 25, 2012
Approximately 220,000 American flags will be placed on every headstone in the cemetery before Memorial Day.
Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to flock to Arlington National Cemetery this week to pay their respects to the servicemen and servicewomen who have fought for our freedom. Thursday afternoon, in advance of Memorial Day, soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment started inserting 220,000 American flags in front of every headstone in the cemetery. The regiment is stationed at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington. The official Memorial Day observance is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday. A prelude concert by the United States Army Band will be held in the cemetery's amphitheather at 10:30 a.m. No tickets are required for the event, but those who wish to attend are advised to arrive between 8 a.m., when the cemetery opens, and …
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Cemetery has hosted Easter service for more than 20 years.
In the chill predawn air, the the rumble of shuttles and soft sounds of instruments being tuned broke the usual quiet surrounding Arlington National Cemetery early Sunday. An estimated 4,000 visitors gathered to attend the Easter sunrise service, a 20-plus year tradition at what many consider to be this nation's most hallowed ground. The non-denominational worship service featured live music from the U.S. Army Band and a sermon by Gen. Charles "Ray" Bailey, U.S. Army deputy chief of chaplains. "This will be my first time conducting for the Easter sunrise and I'm really looking forward to it," said Capt. Richard A. Winkels, associate conductor of the U.S. Army Band. "Many of our band members had very early mornings and were up at 3:30 or 4 …
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Cemetery, U.S. National Park Service highlight African-American contributions to local, regional and national history.
Arlington National Cemetery this month hosted a tour that specifically highlighted the contributions of African-Americans to the history of the region, the Civil War and the United States in general. The two-hour tour was packed with a wealth of information and included stops at the former site of Freedman's Village, the historic slave quarters at Arlington House and Section 27, the site where blacks were buried when the cemetery officially opened. At the time, burials were segregated. Sixty-three slaves worked the Custis-Lee family's Arlington plantation before the land was established as the cemetery, including a man named Jim Parks. Parks later became a gravedigger at the cemetery and the federal government gave special permission for …
Friday, November 11, 2011
The president placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns and offered remarks at Arlington National Cemetery's Memorial Amphitheater on Friday.
President Barack Obama, in his remarks Friday at Arlington National Cemetery’s Memorial Amphitheater, compared today’s servicemen and women to the Greatest Generation that faced the hardships of World War II. Obama also noted the upcoming holidays would serve as a season of homecomings following the end of the war in Iraq and the anticipated withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan. Over the next five years, 1 million troops will return to civilian life. “This generation of service members – this 9/11 Generation – has borne the burden of our security during a hard decade of sacrifice. Our servicemen and women make up less than 1 percent of Americans, but also more than 1 million military spouses and 2 million children and millions more…
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Thank you, Ric Shinseki, for your extraordinary service to our country and your tireless commitment to our veterans; to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; to Chairman Dempsey and Mrs. Dempsey; to our wonderful veterans service organizations for the extraordinary work that you do for our nation’s heroes; to all who tend to and watch over this sacred cemetery; and above all, to every active duty member, Guardsman, Reservist, and veteran of the United States Armed Forces. There are many honors and responsibilities that come with this job. But none are more humbling than serving as your Commander-in-Chief. And I’m proud to be with so many of you here today. Here, where our heroes come to rest, we come to show our gratitude. A few moments …
Young and old gathered to remember and honor America's armed services.
Families and strangers, youth groups and veterans, and people of all political persuasions came together Friday at Arlington National Cemetery’s Memorial Amphitheater to honor the men and women who have served this country. The National Veterans Day Observance ceremony featured a traditional laying of the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns and remarks by President Barack Obama. Even among the younger attendants, it was a time of reflection. “It’s important because you get to honor your country,” said 14-year-old Leon Wilcox, one of 50 Navy ROTC cadets who came to the ceremony from Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Md. “I get to honor my relatives – I’ve had a lot in the military who have died,” he said. “It’s important to remember …
Monday, May 30, 2011
One Army chaplain talks about his duty to honor the service and sacrifice of veterans at Arlington National Cemetery year-round
Lt. Col. Keith Croom's first reaction is to crack a joke and a smile. He has the ease and charm you would expect from a man raised in the South. You probably wouldn't call him serious, and definitely not somber. Until you bring up his job. Because there's not much funny about his job. Croom is a chaplain in the U.S. Army, assigned as that branch's senior chaplain at Arlington National Cemetery. His office, with four chaplains under him at the rank of captain, buries more than 20 veterans or their spouses every day. It's a physically draining job, with chaplains performing up to six funerals a day for up to two years. "My guys are coming in from the gravesite basically just to wipe the sweat off their face and go meet with the next family…
Keith Best
9:59 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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