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How Arlington Cemetery Began

How Arlington Cemetery Began

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Brenda Elthon
Sep 04, 2019
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Arlington Cemetery, photo credit: Andrew Bossi

On Memorial Day in 1921, the unidentified remains of four American soldiers killed during the Great War (World War I) were exhumed from American cemeteries in France. Their bodies were placed in identical caskets and laid in repose in a French church. That October, a highly decorated U.S. combat veteran …

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