More Sightseeing

Facts about Arlington Cemetery:

•  Averages twenty-eight funerals everday
• More than 300,000 people are buried here
• Veterans from all the nations wars (from the American Revolution onwards) are buried here

 "When we assumed the soldier we did not lay aside the citizen." -George Washington

Arlington Cemetery is huge.  Like massively, properly, beyond impressively huge. Ever inch of which, it seems, has a headstone paying homage to a fallen soldier. The sheer number of fallen Americans is shocking; and to think, this does not even begin to cover all of the lost military men and women (let alone the injured).