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Memorial
Day Tribute
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The High Cost of
our Freedom is written in
Blood!
Medals of Honor
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With our most Solemn,
Reverent Honor and Respect, We The
People, owe a stern debt of gratitude to
the millions of Brave Men and Women
who made the most supreme sacrifice giving
their Blood, in the name of Freedom
and Democracy, for The United States of
America, for
which it Stands by,
We The
People.
PLEDGE
of ALLEGIANCE
I
pledge allegiance {I
promise my Loyalty} to the Flag {to
the symbol that stands to represent}
of The
United States of America {each
and every one of the 50 States, that form
the United Nation of America} and
to the Republic{
a Country where People choose their
representative to form the Government and
represent them} for which it
Stands, One Nation{
The Flag that stands for one Country} under
God,{
One Supreme entity for every Citizen} Indivisible,
{A
Country that can not be divided} with
Liberty{
Complete Freedom of Life and Living being
given to the Citizens} and
Justice{
Fair Treatment being promised by the Law of
the Land}
for All.
{ For each and every Citizen of the
Country}.
Francis
Bella 1892, U.S. Congress June 22, 1942,
Eisenhower 1954
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Arlington National
Cemetery
system. In an
area of 624 acres (2.53 km), veterans
and military casualties from each of the
nation's wars are interred in the cemetery,
ranging from the
American Civil War through to the
military actions in
Afghanistan and
Iraq. Pre-Civil War dead were
re-interred after 1900.
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The government had acquired Arlington at tax sale in
1864 for $26,800 . Mrs. Lee had not appeared in
person, but rather had sent an agent, who attempting
to timely pay the $92.07 in property taxes assessed
the estate. The government turned away her agent,
refusing to accept the tendered payment. In 1877,
Custis Lee, heir under his grandfather's will
passing the estate in trust to his mother, sued the
United States claiming ownership of Arlington. After
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Lee's favor in
1882, deciding that Arlington had been confiscated
without due process, Congress returned the estate to
him. The next year Custis Lee sold it back to the
government for $150,000 at a signing ceremony with
Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War.
Burial
Procedures
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Arlington House
flag flying at
half-staff. The flag is lowered
during interments.The flags in
Arlington National Cemetery are
flown at
half-staff from a half hour
before the first
funeral until a half hour after
the last funeral each day. Funerals
are normally conducted five days a
week, excluding weekends.
Funerals,
including internments and
inurnments, average between 27-30
per day. The cemetery conducts
approximately 6,900 burials each
year.
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Military burials
were previously done at the
United States Soldier's National
Cemetery in Washington, D.C.,
but space was filling up. "The
grounds about the mansion, We pray
for those who lost their lives.",
Meigs wrote, "are admirably adapted
to such a use." Burials had in fact
begun at Arlington before the ink
was even blotted on Meigs's
proposal.
The southern
portion of the land now occupied by
the cemetery was used during and
after the Civil War as a settlement
for freed slaves. More than 1,100
freed slaves were given land at
Freedman's Village by the
government, where they farmed and
lived during and after the Civil
War. They were turned out in 1890
when the estate was repurchased by
the government and dedicated as a
military installation.
President
Herbert Hoover conducted the
first national Memorial Day ceremony
in Arlington National Cemetery, on
May 30, 1929.
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"In Honor
and Memory of the Men of the United
States Marine Corps who have given
their lives to their country since
10 November 1776"
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With more than 300,000
people interred there, Arlington
National Cemetery has the second-largest
number of people buried of any national
cemetery in the United States. The
largest of the 130 national cemeteries
is the
Calverton National Cemetery, on
Long Island, near
Riverhead, New York, which conducts
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The cemetery is
located on a bluff overlooking
Omaha Beach (one of the landing
beaches of the
Normandy Invasion) and the
English Channel. It covers 70
ha (172
acres), and contains the remains of
9,387 American military dead, most of
whom were killed during the invasion of
Normandy and ensuing military operations
in World War II. Included are graves of
Army Air Force crews shot down over
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List of National Cemeteries
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Vietnam
War Touch Wall
Memorial
58,000
Americans,
gave their
Lives.
We offer this Special 2010 Memorial Day
Tribute for all Americans to visually
understand the High Cost of Life Lost and
Paid for our personal Freedoms and
Democracy. These Brave and Honorable
American Souls have made the most Supreme
Sacrifice of Life, for their beliefs in
preserving our We The People
Constitution and promote Freedom and
Democracy in the World.
Please take a 60 second Moment in Silence
and Reflection to show Respect and Honor to
the Millions of Americans who put their
lives on the line and performed their
horrific Duty's with Honor and Distinction,
representing The United States of America.
We The People! Please take a moment
in
Silence for All those Men, Women and
Children who have laid down their Lives
for Our Freedom. Please and Thank you!
God
Bless Us and America!
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