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Title: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: DnStClr on December 11, 2007, 11:17:04 am
 A friend sent me an email pic of Arlington Nat'l Cemetary at Christmas and I can't bring the pic over to this site. Wreaths on every grave. It's beautiful. Maybe I can forward the email to someone so they can share it...
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: Captkaos on December 11, 2007, 11:33:39 am
didn't make it Don...
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: DnStClr on December 11, 2007, 12:18:58 pm
(http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd22/Dnstclr/download.jpg)
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: JJSZABO on December 11, 2007, 12:59:08 pm
Respectful and IMPRESSIVE
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: gpday08 on December 11, 2007, 01:41:41 pm
thats amazing, im impressed!!  :)
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: 78ScottsdaleK20 on December 11, 2007, 06:53:46 pm
It's good to see that those that have served and fallen, have not been forgotten. That's why this country of ours is the best

Thanks for sharing the pic!
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: okuma on December 11, 2007, 07:27:23 pm
Quote from: 78ScottsdaleK20 on December 11, 2007, 06:53:46 pm
It's good to see that those that have served and fallen, have not been forgotten. That's why this country of ours is the best
  
I JUST HAD TO ATTACH THESE VERY PRECIOUS PICTURES ON THIS TREAD! 
MERRY X-MAS TO ALL THEIR FAMILIES!!
(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/OKUMA111/untitled0.jpg)

CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IS GOING THROUGH THE PEOPLE ON THE PLANE, KNOWING THEY ARE BRINGING HOME A HERO!
(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/OKUMA111/01.jpg)
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: Blazin on December 11, 2007, 11:51:07 pm
I have been to Arlington several times, my uncle Charlie is laid to rest there. I have seen the wreaths in person, it is a very moving sight.
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: DnStClr on December 12, 2007, 01:30:11 am
Apparently a wreath company in Maine supplies and delivers the wreaths every year. Free of charge.  That's a real spirit of this season.
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: cjtimp on December 12, 2007, 09:40:27 am
I can only say WOW and wipe the tears from my eyes............... :'(
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: Lt.Del on December 12, 2007, 10:45:07 pm
That is a nice statement.     My dad and I were at the river house this past summer and he relayed something to me that shocked me, as we were drinking a few and sitting on the pier.  He wants to be buried at Arlington.   He surely qualifies, a vietnam vet, was shot three times, and was honorably discharged from the Marine Corp as I was being born at Camp Lejeune Marine base.  I told him I'd do what I can to make it happen.

The origins to the cemetery are interesting.  It was Robert E Lee's mansion prior to the Civil War.  Lee married Martha Custis--the step-granddaughter of Geo Washington, whose property overlooking the Potomac, was built on.   Upon the breakout of the War, the Yanks wanted to "get even" with Bobby Lee and started to bury the dead on his plantation.

 


 
Title: Re: Arlington At Christmas
Post by: DnStClr on December 17, 2007, 10:57:37 am
Little did they know what a great contribution they were making to the memory of war's greatest general .Pretty ironic..