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TIL About the Arlington Ladies. A volunteer organization, usually made up of the wives of General officers, their mission is to attend the funeral service of any US service member being buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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TIL while exact numbers are not known, estimates indicate that nearly half of the remains of the dead in the US Civil War were never identified. This resulted from burials along marching routes or battlefields, and a lack of personal identification for soldiers
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TIL - The US Army once gave a very passionate disadulation to cyclists who tried to make leisure bicycling in the Arlington National Cemetery legal. Partially due to cyclists refused to yield to funeral precessions.