A look at some of Arlington's most famous gravesites

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When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

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May 27, 2018, 03:57 PM

rat2306

A nice tribute. So many others could be mentioned; not very far from Joe Louis' and General Doolittle's burial sites are Lee Marvin's, and Audie Murphy's. The past couple of years I've gone to visit the graves of two of my older brother's cohorts from his USMC days and civilian service on behalf of their families. One was lost in Iraq.

May 27, 2018, 06:47 PM

Sig2340

My maternal grandfather is buried at Arlington.

Colonel Paul Langan, U.S. Army Medical Corps.

As a pioneering radiologist the Army came looking for him on December 8, 1941. Despite being an above the knee amputee (at 13, he lost it to a train he hopped to get to work in a steel mill) he was whisked into uniform, and told he'd figure out the military stuff while setting up radiology departments in hospitals across the country.

He was then posted to one in San Francisco, where he treated sailors, soldiers, aircrews, and Marines for the balance of the war.

Nice is overrated

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Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018

May 27, 2018, 07:30 PM

bigdeal

Of every place I've ever been and every thing I've ever seen in my 56 years, Arlington affected me the most. I've been there several times over the years and its never lost its very special place in my life. Thank you and may god bless all those who lay there and elsewhere who gave their lives in service to this country.

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