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Memorial31 Aug 2013
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Memorial4 May 2009
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Memorial19 Dec 2011
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Memorial3 Sept 2008
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Memorial3 Sept 2008
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Memorial5 Sept 2008
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Memorial31 May 2013
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Memorial4 Oct 2013
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Memorial2 Nov 2013
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Memorial30 Oct 2013
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Memorial2 Nov 2013
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Memorial2 Nov 2013
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Memorial2 Nov 2013
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Memorial5 June 2014
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Memorial3 Sept 2008
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Memorial13 Feb 2014
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Memorial31 Oct 2013
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Memorial27 Nov 2008
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Memorial6 Sept 2008
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Memorial12 Feb 2014
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Memorial23 Oct 2013
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Memorial30 Oct 2013
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Memorial12 Feb 2014
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Memorial20 Oct 2013
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Memorial1 Nov 2013
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Memorial4 Nov 2013
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Memorial4 Nov 2013
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Memorial31 Oct 2013
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Memorial2 Nov 2013
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Memorial30 May 2013
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Memorial6 Sept 2008
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Memorial27 Apr 2014
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Memorial31 Oct 2013
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Memorial19 Jan 2019
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Memorial27 Jan 2019
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Memorial19 Feb 2019
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Memorial30 Jan 2020
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Subject30 Nov 2014
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Subject28 Jan 2015

Source URLs

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Official Website of Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery--Civil War Era National Cemeteries: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine
Arlington National Cemetery - National Geographic Magazine Online
George Washington Parke Custis
Martha Washington
Arlington House
Mary Anna
United States Army
Robert E. Lee
[2]
American Civil War
Army of Northern Virginia
[3]
Virginia militia
[4]
[5]
Ravensworth
Fairfax County, Virginia
[6]
[7]
Winfield Scott
Brigadier General
Irvin McDowell
Alexandria, Virginia
[8]
United States Soldiers' Cemetery
Alexandria Cemetery
[10]
Battle of the Wilderness
Quartermaster General
Montgomery C. Meigs
[11]
William Henry Christman
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
[17]
[18]
Custis Lee
United States v. Lee
Robert Todd Lincoln
Herbert Hoover
Pennsylvania
[78]
Medal of Honor
citation needed
Canadian
state funerals
William Howard Taft
John F. Kennedy
Senator
Robert F. Kennedy
Edward "Ted" Kennedy
General of the Armies
John J. Pershing
U.S. presidents
commanders-in-chief
Jacqueline
"eternal flame"
Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy
Robert Kennedy's body was reinterred