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Arlington National Cemetery is, in a very real sense, an American Shrine; it is one of the most visited tourist attractions in America with nearly 5 million visitors each year.  Strolling or riding through its acres of burial sites, it is almost possible to forget that it is also an active cemetery.

• The grounds of Arlington National Cemetery comprise some 612 acres of what was once the 1,000 acre plantation owned by the granddaughter of George Washington and her husband Robert E. Lee.

• More than 260,000 persons are currently buried at Arlington making it our second largest National Cemetery.

• Veterans interred at Arlington are from every war in our Nation's history, dating back to the Revolutionary War.  Soldiers killed in the line of duty even today continued to be interred at Arlington.

• Two American Presidents (Taft and Kennedy) are buried at Arlington.

• There are an average of 15-20 funerals daily at Arlington.

• Flags at Arlington are lowered to half staff thirty minutes before the first funeral of the day and remain at half staff until a half hour after the last.

• Arlington National Cemetery is the only military cemetery that is authorized to use horses as a regular part of its ceremony.

• Approximately 16,000 ceremonies are conducted at Arlington, ranging from burials to planting of memorial trees and wreath-laying ceremonies.

• Since April 6, 1948 the Tomb of the Unknowns is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by an honor guard that is changed each half hour in summer daylight hours and ever hour at night and throughout the winter.

• Four times each year the President sends a wreath to Arlington:

  • Memorial Day

  • May 29th (President Kennedy's Birthday)

  • September 15th (President Taft's Birthday)

  • Veterans' Day

• On Memorial Day Weekend (first called Decoration Day), members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry (Old Guard) place American flags on each grave, set a distance of one boot width from the headstone.  These remain in place until after the traditional Memorial Day ceremony.

• There are twenty-five accepted religious symbols that may be engraved on the headstone/marker.  (Click Here to view them)

• Headstones of Medal of Honor recipients may have engraved on them the image of the Medal of Honor to denote the final resting place of an American hero.

• A total of  377  Medal of Honor recipients are either interred or memorialized at Arlington.

  •    4  of the 19 double recipients of the Medal of Honor are buried in Arlington (Baldwin, Cukela, McCloy, and Pruitt).

  •  43  of the recipients buried in Arlington were killed in action or are listed as missing in action, including two recipients who earned Medals of Honor in one war, then were killed in action in a later war.

  • The average age of death among the recipients buried in Arlington is  65  and the oldest died at the age of  101. 

  •  203  Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington have the distinctive, government-issue Medal of Honor headstone.

  •  91  Medal of Honor grave sites have private headstones with either the text Medal of Honor and/or a graphic image of the Medal.

  •  83  of the Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington have private headstones with no reference to the Medal of Honor.

  • Recipients from  43  of our nation's 50 states plus the District of Columbia are buried in Arlington.

Recipients Buried In Arlington BY BRANCH Army 214 Navy 104 USMC 46 Army AC 10 Air Force 3 Grand Total 378

BY WAR Civil War 97 World War II 63 Mexican Campaign 39 Indian Campaigns 34 Peace Time 25 World War I 25 Philippine War 22 Vietnam War 21 Korean War 19 Spanish-American 16 China Relief 12 Samoan 2 Haiti - 1915 1 Nicaragua 1 Grand Total 378

 

The Tables at Right
Demonstrate the Breakdown
of Recipients
Buried in Arlington

 

Who Is Eligible for Burial at Arlington?

For additional Information we recommend the following external link:
MOH Recipients in Arlington National Cemetery

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