Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery
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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Jacqueline Kennedy's gravestone.
An unnamed daughter's gravestone.
The eternal flame.
Passages drawn mostly from JFK's Inaugural Address are memorialized around the Kennedy gravesite.

The Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol, seen on the horizon, are across the Potomac River, east of Arlington National Cemetery
More of JFK's words memorialized.
Perhaps the most famous words spoken by JFK, inspired by a passage from Orestes Brownson.
The endless rows of gravestones call to mind what G. K. Chesterton called "the democracy of the Dead." Do we, the living, honor their sacrifice?
Uphill view of Arlington House. The former home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is now a memorial. In the middle ground, to the right of the tall tree, is the retaining wall marking the Kennedys' gravesite.

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