Memorial Day "is not about barbecues or sales or the opening of the swimming pool," said Allison Finkelstein, senior historian at Arlington National Cemetery. "Memorial Day is a solemn day, a day ...

Arlington National Cemetery is located across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. at the end of Memorial Avenue, the parkway which extends from Memorial Bridge, near the Lincoln Memorial.

Facts Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, contains the remains of more than 400,000 people from the United States and 13 other countries, buried there since the 1860s.

Around 20 people are already on the waitlist to buy a plot at Arlington Cemetery when sales open sometime in October. First, the city has to make sure it knows which plots have already been purchased.

Trump honors fallen soldiers at Arlington, calling them ‘America’s best and bravest’ By SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press,Updated May 26, 2025, 11:48 a.m.

Spanning some 639 acres overlooking the Potomac River across from Washington, D.C., Arlington is the final resting place of more than 400,000 service men and women and their dependents.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance salute in the amphitheatre at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day, May 26, 2025.

President Trump was joined by fellow members of his administration during a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day, May 26, 2025.

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY − At 6:30 a.m., the scrape of manure shovels and the shuffling of horse hooves echoed through the red-brick stable at Fort Myer. Soldiers from the caisson detachment ...

Arlington National Cemetery is hallowed ground, a peaceful spot to remember those who died in the chaos of war and combat. Its 639 acres include the graves of more than 400,000 U.S. service ...