“We owe them a place where they can have eternal rest,” says Raymond Houck, a U.S. Army veteran.
The cemetery spans 624 acres of sacred ground with 400,000 graves.
“Every year they find this to be a special and moving place and I want to keep that for everybody,” says Carol Harvey of Arlington.
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3 comments:
Seems to me that going around the tree is a more beautiful thing to do. We just buried Dad who was a 95 year old Veteran on WWII next to a giant oak in a forested hilly cemetery. It was beautiful, even during the snow that was falling!
The graves in Arlington are aligned by laser. It won't work. But I agree trees add beauty
Well, someone needs to go out and buy some 20 year old survey equipment that can plot around an obstacle and line them up within 1/64 of an inch. We in the building trades have had this stuff for years and do it every day!
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