The National Cemetery Administration ( Nca )

Arlington National Cemetery is located in Arlington, Virginia and is home to over 400,000 graves. Service members who died while on active duty, retired members of the Armed Forces, and certain veterans and family members may be buried there. Seeing the countless rows of headstones allowed me to reflect upon the sacrifices made by our U.S. soldiers. I have a tremendous amount of respect for every person buried there. Monuments, memorials and dedicated trees commemorating individuals and significant events in our nation's history are interspersed throughout the cemetery among the headstones of service members for whom Arlington is the final resting place. These people shall never be forgotten. Walking beside the graves allowed me

An inscription was then added to the tomb that said, “Honoring and Keeping Faith with America 's Missing Servicemen.”

Civil War burials were in various places; prison, camps, hospitals, the front line, etc. Most deaths were honored depending on the symbolic meaning their body were represented as. Burials were based on religious matters as well as the rank and communal duties, but most important was the personal respect in the in the face of death.

The tomb of the unknown soldier is a cemetery for the soldiers from World War Ⅰ, World War Ⅱ, and the Vietnam War. On Memorial Day 1921, four unknowns were disinterred from World War Ⅰ American cemeteries in France. Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger selected one of the four identical caskets by placing a spray of white roses on the casket. The chosen unidentified soldier was transported to the United States by the USS Olympia. The others remaining were interred in Meuse Argonne Cemetery in France.

On March 4, 1921, an unknown soldier from World War I was buried with the approval of Congress in the plaza of the Memorial Amphitheatre at Arlington National Cemetery. This serviceman was chosen randomly out of four other servicemen from four individual gravesites located in France. Not only was this soldier honored as a valiant trooper, but unknown soldiers from World War II and the Korean War were honored and remembered at this site too. The soldier located in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was buried with a white marble sarcophagus on top of the grave that has engravings of both Greek figures and words that say “an American soldier known but to God.” The importance of this mausoleum is that it honors those who were unidentified soldiers, and shows that our country will honor our armed forces and respect them, whether they are known or unknown.

“What [is scene] in the cemetery are the last vestiges of a great American tragedy” (Roberts xi). This cemetery is one massive grave, were the remains of nearly 13,000 Union prisoners of war who died of disease and starvation between February 1864 and May 1865. This is Andersonville.

These facilities provide a broad spectrum of medical, surgical, and rehabilitative care. Then in 1973 the National Cemetery System (except Arlington National Cemetery) was transferred to the Veterans Administration from the department of the Army. The VA was charged with operating the Cemetery System this includes marking all the graves of veterans in national and state cemetery’s and administering the State Cemetery Grants Program. The Department of Veterans Affairs was established as a cabinet-level position on march 15 1989 under President Bush (senior), he addressed the creation of this new department saying, “ there is only one place for the veterans of America, in the cabinet room, at the table with the President of the United States of America.” (VA History)

Cemeteries can be a vital source to anything that has happened in the past. All cemeteries carry information that can answer a lot of questions. Many cemeteries possess information that can be utilized as a helpful tool. Additionally, Texas has over 1,600 cemeteries that have a Texas Historic Cemetery Status. Out of each 254 counties in Texas, at least one cemetery has been designated as an HTC. In Texas, there are numerous of cemeteries that can be accessible. However, there are some that can not be accessible anymore but they are still counted for. It was stated that it was estimated that there are roughly 50,000 cemeteries in Texas. Those cemeteries, are cemeteries that are currently range from single, isolated and often unmarked graves

Obviously, the Tomb of the Unknown is heavily guarded at all times, even during the atrocious weather that comes upon Washington, D.C. In the year of 1948, the Third Infantry, also known as the Old Guard, had received the responsibility of guarding the most important tomb in Arlington National Cemetery. The Third Infantry is very important because it is the only infantry unit allowed to march with bayonets on the rifles. Primarily, the Third Infantry’s responsibility are duties, for example, conducting all military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery, providing protection for the capitol building and providing an escort for the president of the United States. The most important honor that can be given to any soldier of the Third Infantry

The war caused a massive death toll number in which the country was not expecting to bury so many of its soldiers. President Lincoln signed the omnibus bill, due to graveyards becoming packed, which allowed him to buy new cemetery grounds. Although, President Lincoln had just ordered the purchase of new cemetery grounds they were filling up quickly as well due to the many injured soldiers that had died in the Battle of the Second Wilderness and the Forty-Day’s Campaign. Both Soldier’s Home and Alexandria National Cemetery were reaching their limit of one thousand burials. Washington started to fill up with dead bodies faster than they could get rid of them, which caused federal officials to choose Arlington as the new burial ground place.

The Tomb of the Unknown Solider is located Arlington National Cemetery which stands atop of a hill overlooking Washington, DC. The Tomb symbolizes all those who were lost or rendered unidentifiable by the action of war. It is there to represent all the missing and unknown service member who made the ultimate sacrifice of giving their lives, but also their identities to protect our country’s freedoms. On March 4, 1921 Congress approved for the burial of an unidentified American solider from World War I to be placed in the Plaza of the newly built Memorial Amphitheater. Inscribed on the back of the Tomb are “Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.” (Arlington National Cemetery) The Tomb sarcophagus was place above the grave of the Unknown Solider

The meaning behind it, the circumstances that should surround it, the hereafter and even relaying the message of death to others, were few of the many concerns amidst all the terror of the war. Those mourning created a religious affiliation representing what came to be “the good death”. It was central in the 18th century, and it was formed to uphold their already existing notions of a proper death even with the circumstances that they faced. The good death was a major concern amongst all Americans, regardless of what religious background, they all had their views on what was the correct way to die. Before the war, they perceived death as something that happened at home and in the presence of their loved ones, in a peaceful manner. That quickly changed once the war took place. Although civil war soldiers were prepared to die, since they lived in a society that always spoke about the way life should end, they had to quickly adapt to the new circumstances of the civil war. Events like the sudden deaths of soldiers represented a threat, of many to their ideological concepts of death. The traditional practices they were accustomed to took a turn during the civil war and put them in an uncomfortable spot but with “ the good death “ they were able to make up for it. Americans eventually came to terms with death as being a part of the sacred work of conserving the union. It became more than just the physical act of death but more

They might hold it at the Tomb of the unknown soldier order to honor the dead soldiers who fought for are country. This is backed up by this sentence is backed up by this statement from the text “A soldier known but to god” The burial site of this unknown world war 1 soldier in Arlington National Cemetery symbolized dignity and reverence for America’s veterans.” also the statement from “To Honor Veterans of All Wars” which is “... a color Guard, made up of members from each of the military service, renders honors to America’s war dead during a tradition-rich ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns.”. Also they might hold it there because of the beutifull land that is worthy of such a tradition. The beauty is described in this statement from

The soldiers must get a proper goodbye burial, because at Gettysburg there were seven thousand people who were killed in several different way. There is a town of two thousand five hundred civilians, civilians who were bury or drown beneath a huge mass with people to take care of. There were about twenty thousand dead and wounded soldiers. The Victors are the people who have to take the responsibility of carrie the dead and take the responsibility

Us Etruscans are well known for our grand funerary practices, which involve creating enormous multi-chambered tombs, especially for us wealthy families, with some exceeding 130 feet in diameter and reaching nearly 50 feet in height . Banditaccia necropolis, the Greek word that translates to “the city of the dead”1, started becoming an orderly arrangement of subterranean tombs along a system of streets in the seventh century and now, in the fifth century, or the Archaic Period, our tombs are continuing to expand in great size, taking up more than 100 acres of land!