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  • Arlington's Section 60

    08/28/2011 7:04:07 AM PDT · by RicocheT · 4 replies
    ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER ^ | Aug. 15, 2011 | LAUREN ACHÉE
    "Arlington National Cemetery became the nation's most hallowed burial ground when a Union officer decided in 1861 that the best place to inter Civil War dead was on the grounds of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's plantation, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.".... ...."Now there is Section 60, the area set aside for servicemen and women who have died serving in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade. It's on the outskirts of the cemetery, among tombstones rarely seen by visitors. They lie far from the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns, outside of...
  • Those Left Behind: The Legacy of Arlington's Section 60 (Riveting photo essay)

    11/11/2009 11:15:34 AM PST · by kristinn · 12 replies · 1,446+ views
    Reuters ^ | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | Larry Downing
    “People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” George Orwell Veteran’s Day is a time to remember “All gave some….Some gave all.”Before reaching the new gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery’s ‘Section 60’ it’s easy to recognize why a simple, quilted, patch of green grass and white stones buried alongside the quiet banks of the Potomac River troubles the heart.Names etched into fresh marble tell the sad tale of early death …Travis L. Youngblood…. Justin Ray Davis….Andy D. Anderson….Thomas J. Barbieri Jr….. Kenneth E. Zeigler II….James R. McIlvaine …....