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Our next day was a free day, so I set out on my own for Arlington National Cemetery. As it happened, others in our group had the same idea - I ran into Profs. Waugh and Gallagher there.
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The eternal flame at the graves of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The Lee mansion overlooks it.
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The Kennedy graves from the portico of the Lee mansion.
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There are over 245,000 servicemen and their families buried at Arlington. About 20 burials are conducted every weekday.
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Audie Murphy's grave at Arlington. Murphy was the most decorated soldier in World War II and later became a movie star.
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"Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier known but to God" Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington.
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Changing the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
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Memorial to the Challenger space shuttle crew.
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The mast of the US battleship Maine which exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, Cuba, on Feb. 15, 1898. Surrounding it are the graves of soldiers who served in the Spanish-American War.
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