Pictured is the Visitors Center, across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial.
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Arlington, Virginia
Located in Northern Virginia, Arlington National Cemetery is hallowed ground. The sign instructs visitors that the cemetery is our nation's most sacred shrine, for the bodies of more than 290,000 veterans and their families lie at rest within its 624 acres.
Photos and text © Gleaves Whitney 2005
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Along with John F. Kennedy's remains are those of his wife Jacqueline and two of their children.
The remains of Robert F. Kennedy, the Kennedy administration's attorney general (and later a U.S. senator), are interred nearby. RFK interrupted his studies at Harvard to serve in the Navy during World War II.