Honor Guard

Terry Rowe

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Terry Rowe

Alexandria, VA

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Title

Honor Guard

Artist

Terry Rowe

Medium

Photograph - Digital Photography

Description

Under a leaden gray autumn sky, an honor guard for a military funeral stands at attention at Arlington National Cemetery. The wind blows the flags as taps is being played. This scene is repeated many times a day at the Cemetery - and it never fails to strike a deep feeling of sorrow within me. I have gone to far too many funerals at Arlington, at least it is a beautiful and quiet resting place.

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a great grand-daughter of Martha Washington. The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is served by the Arlington Cemetery station on the Blue Line of the Washington Metro system.
In an area of 624 acres, veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's wars are interred in the cemetery, ranging from the American Civil War through to the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred after 1900.

Arlington National Cemetery and United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery are administered by the Department of the Army. The other national cemeteries are administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs or by the National Park Service. Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (the Custis-Lee Mansion) and its grounds are administered by the National Park Service as a memorial to Lee.

The flags in Arlington National Cemetery are flown at half-mast from a half hour before the first funeral until a half hour after the last funeral each day. Funerals are normally conducted five days a week, excluding weekends.

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