Arlington
National Cemetery, Virginia
Arlington Mansion and 200 acres of ground immediately surrounding it were
designated officially as a military cemetery June 15, 1864, by Secretary
of War Edwin M. Stanton. Veterans from all the nation's wars are buried
in the cemetery, from the American Revolution through the Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pre-Civil War
dead were reinterred after 1900.
Arlington
National Cemetery and Soldiers Home National Cemetery are administered
by the Department of the Army.
With more than 300,000 people buried,
Arlington National Cemetery has the second-largest number of people buried
of any national cemetery in
the United States.
The
Tomb of the Unknowns is one of the more-visited sites at Arlington National
Cemetery The Tomb is made from Yule marble quarried in Colorado.
It consists of seven pieces, with a total weight of 79 tons. The Tomb
was completed and opened to the public April 9, 1932.
Unknown
Soldier of World War I, was interred Nov. 11, 1921. President Harding
presided.
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Shawnee County WW1 Casualties buried at Aisne-Marne:
BOLINGER, William M.
DEACON,
Thomas C.
GREENE,
Lloyd C.
HEIZER,
Robert S.
HUITT,
Edward W.
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