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  Pictured is the Visitors Center, across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial.

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  Along Roosevelt Drive near the Women's Memorial, a majestic oak tree stands watch over graves.
  

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  The United States has more than 100 national cemeteries, but Arlington is the most famous. Its east-facing slopes hold the remains of veterans of every U.S. war, including the Tomb of the Unknowns.
  

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  What unites the memory of the almost 300,000 men and women buried at Arlington is one great distinction -- service to their country. "To each one, no matter what rank or station, whether decorated hero or unknown, belongs a place of honor" (from the Arlington National Cemetery brochure).
  

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  The remains of John F. Kennedy, a World War II veteran and the 35th president of the United States, are marked by an eternal flame.

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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.

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  Patrick Kennedy's gravestone.

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  John F. Kennedy's gravestone.