Notice, also, that Memorial Day USED TO BE the last day of May. Now it's a moveable holiday. Irrespective of that Memorial Day Weekend has been the target for many years, and you've got everywhere from the COB on Thursday, through Sunday evening, or COB on Friday, through Monday evening, to get your Decorating done ~ and all of us here CELEBRATE "Decoration Day", right?
Due to its wide open nature Arlington National has always been a "security problem", and then somebody allowed "them" to build high rise apartments and condos overlooking the area. I used to live in one. In nearly a decade NOT ONCE did a President visit the Marine Corps Memorial that framed my window! Talk about a "security problem", that was and is a tough one.
BTW, I soaked up all sorts of patriotic rays from the Marine Corps memorial ~ and then the Japanese tourists began coming for purpose of releasing the souls of the dead killed in WWII. There'd be hundreds of them out there lined up praying and burning incense, and flashing cameras. They'd light up the nights ~ then get back on their tour buses and go somewhere else. Most folks don't realize that the Memorial has been for many years a Shinto and Buddhist shrine.