Post by Lone HaranguerIf my memory is on track he was a clerk in the Army in the early '50s.
LZ
Post by Old Harley RiderTell me if I'm wrong.
I thought Arlington was for service men.
Was Kennedy ever in the military ?
Arlington is a NATIONAL cemetary, not a military only cemetary....
see http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org
Just for a change of pace, if such a thing is physically possible, you might
try posting when you're sober once in awhile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia is a military cemetery
in the United States, established during the American Civil War on the
grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E.
Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a descendant of Martha Washington. The
cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
and near The Pentagon. It is served by the Arlington Cemetery station on the
Blue Line of the Washington Metro system.
More than 300,000 people are buried in an area of 624 acres (2.53 km2).
Veterans and military casualties from every one of the nation's wars are
interred in the cemetery, from the American Civil War through the military
actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred after
1900.
Arlington National Cemetery and United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home
National Cemetery are administered by the Department of the Army. The other
National Cemeteries are administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs
or by the National Park Service. Arlington House (Custis-Lee Mansion) and
its grounds are administered by the National Park Service as a memorial to
Lee.
Post by Lone Haranguermany non military people are buried there...
for instance
from http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/historical_information/index.html
Historical Figures Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
Audie Murphy
Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1926 (?) May 28, 1971)[2] was a much-decorated
American soldier who served in the European Theater during World War II
Post by Lone HaranguerFive-Star Officers - Generals and Admirals
Glenn Miller
In 1942, at the peak of his civilian career, Miller decided to join the war
effort. At 38, Miller was too old to be drafted, and first volunteered for
the Navy but was told that they did not need his services. [57] Miller then
wrote to Army Brigadier General Charles Young. He persuaded the United
States Army to accept him so he could, in his own words, "be placed in
charge of a modernized Army band."[3] After being accepted into the Army,
Glenns civilian band played their last concert in Passaic, New Jersey on
September 27, 1942.
On December 15, 1944, Miller was to fly from the United Kingdom to Paris,
France, to play for the soldiers who had recently liberated Paris. His plane
(a single-engined UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285) departed from RAF
Twinwood Farm in Clapham, Bedfordshire and disappeared while flying over the
English Channel.[67] No trace of the aircrew, passengers or plane has ever
been found. Miller's status is missing in action.
During World War I, Paderewski became an active member of the Polish
National Committee in Paris, which was soon accepted by the Entente as the
representative of Poland. He became a spokesman of that organisation and
soon also formed other social and political organisations, among them the
Polish Relief Fund in London. It was then that he met the English composer
Edward Elgar who used a theme from Paderewski's "Fantasie Polonaise"[3] in
his work "Polonia" written for the Polish Relief Fund concert in London on
July 6th 1916.
In April 1918, he met in New York City with leaders of the American Jewish
Committee, including Louis Marshall, in an unsuccessful attempt to broker a
deal whereby organized Jewish groups would support Polish territorial
ambitions in exchange for support for equal rights. However, it soon became
clear that no plan would satisfy both Jewish leaders and Roman Dmowski, head
of the Polish National Committee.[4]
At the end of the war, with the fate of the city of Poznan and the whole
region of Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) still undecided, Paderewski visited
Poznan. With his public speech on December 27, 1918, the Polish inhabitants
of Poznan began a military uprising against Germany, called the Greater
Poland Uprising.
Paderewski became the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
(January, 1919 - December, 1919), and he thus represented Poland at the
Paris Peace Conference. In the summer of that year, he signed the Treaty of
Versailles, which restored the territories of Greater Poland and Pomerania
around the City of Gdansk to Poland. Although this fell short of what the
Polish delegates had demanded, these territories provided the core of the
restored Polish state.
He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington Virginia, near
Washington D.C.. In 1992, his body was brought to Warsaw and placed in St.
John's Cathedral. His heart is encased in a bronze sculpture in the National
Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa near Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
The first graves in Arlington National Cemetery were dug by James Parks, a
former Arlington Estate slave. Parks was freed in 1862 under the terms of
the will of his former owner, George Washington Parke Custis. He still lived
on Arlington Estate when Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signed the orders
designating Arlington as a military burial ground. Parks served in the U.S.
Army from 1861 to 1929 by working as a grave digger and maintenance man for
the cemetery. When Parks died on August 21, 1929, the Secretary of War
granted special permission for him to be buried at Arlington National
Cemetery with full military honors.
Post by Lone HaranguerLiterary Figures
Matt Urban
Lieutenant Colonel Matt Louis Urban (August 25, 1919- March 4, 1995) was a
United States Army officer who served with distinction in World War II. He
was belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor, in 1980 for repeated acts of
heroism in combat in France and Belgium in 1944. According to the Guinness
Book of World Records, he is the most decorated American serviceman.
Post by Lone HaranguerMedical Figures
Military Figures
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
L'Enfant was recruited by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais to join in
the American Revolutionary War in the American colonies. LEnfant arrived in
1777 and served as a military engineer in the Continental Army with Major
General Lafayette.[1] LEnfant became closely identified with the United
States, adopting the name Peter.[2][3]. He was wounded at the Siege of
Savannah in 1779, but recovered and served in General George Washington's
staff as a Captain of Engineers for the remainder of the Revolutionary War.
During the war, L'Enfant was with George Washington at Valley Forge. While
there, Marquis de Lafayette commissioned L'Enfant to paint a portrait of
Washington. L'Enfant was promoted by brevet to Major of Engineers on May 2,
1783 in recognition of his service to American liberty.[4] After the war,
L'Enfant designed the badge of the Society of the Cincinnati, shaped as an
eagle, at the request of Washington, and was sent to France to give the
badges to French officers who fought in the war.
Robert R. Scott (July 13, 1915-December 7, 1941) was a United States Navy
sailor who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions
during the attack on Pearl Harbor
Yeah, I really do have too much spare time on my hands right now, but
hey I'm working on it.
TB