Krauthammer stupidly and ignorantly said that Arlington was created by Yankee soldiers to solemnly and kindly bury Confederate and Yankee dead. In fact, it was done to personally ruin Robert E. Lee’s home (his wife’s, I think) so that he could never live there again or farm there. Basically, Total War.
Krauthammer, like a lot of his Washington ilk, has ignorance towards that war. His ignorance should not be displayed on the nightly news.
"Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, formerly named the Custis-Lee Mansion,[5][6] is a Greek revival style mansion located in Arlington, Virginia, United States that was once the home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It overlooks the Potomac River and the National Mall in Washington, D.C. During the American Civil War, the grounds of the mansion were selected as the site of Arlington National Cemetery, in part to ensure that Lee would never again be able to return to his home. However, the United States has since designated the mansion as a National Memorial to Lee. Although the United States Department of the Army controls Arlington National Cemetery, the National Park Service, a component of the United States Department of the Interior, administers Arlington House."