Arlington Cemetery

Did you know that Arlington Cemetery is a stop on the metro? It is between the pentagon and Larrys stop which is in Roslyn Virginia. We can walk to the cemetery from Larrys work if we want and even cross the river to get behind the Lincoln memorial...Geesh I really can get myself around on foot can't I? We went to the Cemetery and walked around forever trying to find the famous WWII monument {ya know the one where the soldiers are pushing up the US flag?} well its not in the cemetery technically and after walking around everywhere in the humidity we gave up. Later I found out it is literally down the road from Larrys office building :)

The cemetery is beautiful and massive and definitely worth a stop. It was fun walking around looking at the different massive grave stones seeing who was who. Did you know Thurgood Marshall was buried there? Also there is the Robert E. Lee house that is currently being resorted. Did you know that the land what the cemetery is on was once Robert E. Lee's and was taken from him when the south lost the war. Pretty interesting stuff and some amazing land. His house is on top of a Hill and looking down you can see the national mall.

There is also lots of different small monuments to the nurses of the war and also the Kennedy's and the tomb of the unknown solider. We watched the changing of the guard and it was pretty powerful stuff. They even do it in the rain. The cemetery is vast and you can walk from one end and even see the Pentagon. We were pretty sweaty when the event was over and really it would be a nice place to come and eat lunch some days.

At the very end we say this statute to the 101 airborne and we had just finished watching the Band Of Brother Series so we were excited that we knew who these people were! It truly is a beautiful cemetery and place to bring your family to.