From the June 15, 2014, NPR "From Former Slaves To Writers, Civilians, Too, Rest At Arlington."
There are 624 acres of Arlington national Cemetery across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C..
Sunday, June 15th, marked its 150th anniversary of its designation as a military burial ground on land that once belonged to U.S. Army and Confederate Army leader Robert E. Lee.
More than 400,000 men and women are interred there., most members of the Armed Forces. But others are family members as well as civilians, including one James Parks, gravedigger.
His Story in Next Post.
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