Arlington National Cemetery is 150 Years Old

Canada Free Press ^ | 2/9/2014 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

[rktman]

There was a quiet and peaceful stillness about the cemetery this January day. It was snowing heavily and the pristine white was accumulating between thousands of rows of headstones marking the graves of our true heroes who gave their lives in battle or died in old age, having served our country for decades, fighting enemies to preserve our freedom.

A very old general was being buried that day and the Honor Guard and the ceremonial horses were barely visible in the heavy snow. I could hear the cadence of the steps and the horse hooves beating rhythmically against the asphalt.

The next day the sun shone over a blustery day, over graves covered in powdery crystalline snow – a pristine whiteness blanketing the peaceful eternity.

[Joe Boucher]

Secretary of war said I’ll be damned if General Lee will come back here again and buried the Union dead around the property.
I lived for two years at Fort Myers, which was part of the property and a military base with an INCREDIBLE history.
Where the Wright Brothers sold the military the idea of airplanes bombing and recon, as well as many other WOW type events.

[Joe Boucher]

Both area’s are prior swamps.
Used to work at the Pentagon and would walk the perimeter and pick huge wild green swamp onions.
Would take em in and eat a few and two things would happen: your breath would make folks cringe and you’d fart real bad.
Both did wonderful things at the puzzle palace.