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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- ARL_980526_001.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Omar Bradley
Here's the marker for Omar Bradley, the last of World War II's five-star generals, who was buried here in 1981.
- ARL_980526_002.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; William Howard Taft
Here's the marker for William Howard Taft, one of two US presidents buried in Arlington. The other, John F Kennedy, is considerably more well-known. The 300-pound Taft, who died in 1930, had also been Supreme Court Chief Justice (1921-30) as well as governor of the occupied Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War. After serving as Secretary of War under Theodore Roosevelt, he was president from 1909-13, being beaten by Woodrow Wilson.
- ARL_980526_003.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Todd was Abraham Lincoln's eldest child. His other three brothers all died before reaching maturity, leaving Robert to continue Lincoln's legacy. Robert had served as a captain on Ulysses Grant's personal staff during the Civil War and witnessed Robert E Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. On April 14, 1865, he was invited to attend "Our American Cousin" with his father at Ford's Theatre but declined, arriving later a Peterson's boarding house to watch his father die. Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd, went insane after the death of her youngest son and Robert had to sign the papers to commit her to an insane asylum.
In 1881, Robert was appointed Secretary of War under president James Garfield. Lincoln escorted Garfield to the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in downtown DC (it was located where the National Gallery of Art's west wing is now located) on July 2, 1881, and watched Garfield be fatally wounded by, Charles Guiteau, an deranged office seeker.
On September 6, 1901, Lincoln was present at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York when president William McKinley was assassinated.
Other than being a jinx to US Presidents, Lincoln also served as the US Minister to Great Britain. When he died in 1926, Lincoln was buried in a plot of land at Arlington with a view of the newly-constructed Lincoln Memorial.
- ARL_980526_004.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, in addition to being a Supreme Court justice (1902-32), had served in the Union army during the Civil War. He served at Fort Stevens during Jubal Early's attack on Washington DC. During the engagement, Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by his wife and other political dignitaries, visited the fort to see the fighting. He mounted a firing step to better see the action, thus exposing his head and chest to enemy fire. A surgeon standing beside him was wounded and Holmes, as a young officer, shouted "Get down, you damn fool!" to the President.
- ARL_980526_005.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; William Douglas
Another Supreme Court justice, William Douglas.
- ARL_980526_006.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Supreme Court justices
Most of the Supreme Court justices are buried in the same area at Arlington. Here you can see the stones for Warren Burger, William Brennan Jr, Potter Stewart, and Thurgood Marshall.
- ARL_980526_007.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; John Gibbon
Here's the grave of Union general John Gibbon.
- ARL_980526_008.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; George Crook
Here's the grave of Union general George Crook.
- ARL_980526_009.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; John Schofield
Here's the grave of Union general John Schofield.
- ARL_980526_010.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Sir John Dill
John Dill was a British national who died here while heading the British military mission to the United States during World War II. In that capacity, he had helped plan the D-Day invasion. He was important enough to warrant an equestrian monument, one of only two in the cemetery (the other being Civil War general Philip Kearny).
- ARL_980526_011.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Matthew Henson
Matthew Henson was a longtime collaborator of Arctic explorer Robert Peary who died in 1920. A black, he accompanied Peary on his trip and they discovered the North Pole in 1909. Henson was the one who placed the US Flag at the Pole. He didn't receive much credit though and eventually moved to Harlem where he was forced to take a menial job at a garage. He was denied a pension or Medal of Honor from Congress. When he died in 1955, he was buried in the Bronx. After considerable work, his body was moved to Arlington and honors in 1988.
- ARL_980526_012.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Mast of The Maine
On Jan 25 1898, President James McKinley ordered the USS Maine to Havana Cuba officially to protect US interests. On the night of February 15, the ship blew up in a unexplained explosion. The US press claimed that the ship was destroyed by a Spanish mine and on April 11, the US declared war on Spain.
During the war, the US had 385 combat-related deaths but 2,000 servicemen died of various tropical diseases and illnesses. Many of the bodies were returned to the Arlington for burial. It was the first time in our history that American servicemen who served abroad in a foreign war were repatriated to the US for reinterment.
Originally, the Americans from the Maine explosion were buried in the Colon Cemetery, where they were buried six to a grave. In 1899, the Navy exhumed 151 of the sailors from the Cuban cemetery. The navy insisted on a group burial because of problems identifying the corpses. The sailors were buried on December 28, 1899.
In 1910, the wreck of the Maine was raised to the surface, primarily to recover the remaining bodies still entombed on the ship. The wreck was towed out to sea and scuttled after the mast was removed. The Maine memorial at Arlington, which is centered around the mast, was dedicated on Feb 15 1915.
- ARL_980526_013.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Ronald Brown
Here's the tomb of Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown, who died during a commercial mission to Croatia. It was his role as chairman of the Democratic National Committee that caused Republicans to train their guns on abolishing the Department of Commerce before his death derailed those efforts.
- ARL_980526_014.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Ronald Brown
Here's the flip-side of Brown's grave. Behind the flowers, you can see a little display case. It had the cover of his daughter's book about him as well as a hand-written note.
- ARL_980526_015.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Walter Reed
Another view of the Walter Reed memorial.
- ARL_980526_016.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Statue
I have no idea who this is. It's unusual to have a full-figure statue at Arlington. Notice the breast has been rubbed shiny by passers by.
- ARL_980526_017.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Albert Sabin
Sabin had invented the second vaccine against polio in 1960. While Jonas Salk had created in 1954 a vaccine made with dead virus strains, Sabin invented a more effective one made with live virus strains.
- ARL_980526_018.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; George Tough
I have no idea who this guy is but I liked the memorial.
- ARL_980526_019.JPG: Arlington Cemetery; Ira Hayes
During the battle of Iwo Jima, the Fifth Marine Division was dispatched to scale the island's highest peak, Mount Suribaci. Several planted a flag atop the 550-foot summit but photographers wanted a picture of it and the flag didn't work effectively in the frame. As a result, six other soldiers were photographed by AP cameraman Joe Rosenthal planting a larger flag. The picture became worldwide famous and became the basis for the large US Marine Corps Memorial near the cemetery. The six soldiers -- Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, Michael Strank, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Harlon Block -- became celebrities.
The government ordered the six pulled out of combat to serve as spokespersons for a new war bond drive, for which the picture became the official symbol. Three of them had already been killed in action however, including Strank who was later buried at Arlington. Ira "The Chief" Hayes and Rene Gagnon were paraded throughout the United States during the campaign.
As memorialized in a song by Johnny Cash, Hayes was a hero but was still treated as "just an Indian" and became an alcoholic. He died drunk in 1955 and was buried in Arlington. Gagnon, who had similar misfortunes, died in 1979 and is also buried in Arlington.
[ Note: It was determined in 2019 that Rene Gagnon in fact was not in the photograph. The record was changed to indicate that the person identified in the photo as Gagnon was, in fact, Corporal Harold P. Keller. [
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