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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier United States For deceased U.S. service members whose remains have not been identified Unveiled 11 November 1921 ; 102 years ago (11 November 1921) Location 38°52′35″N 77°04′20″W / 38.87639°N 77.07222°W / 38.87639; -77.07222 Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD The Tomb of ...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...
Casualties. Arrested. 12,000. The 1971 May Day protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the United States' participation in the Vietnam War. The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5. Over 12,000 people were arrested, the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. [1]
Three Soldiers (also titled Three Servicemen) is a bronze statue by Frederick Hart. Unveiled on Veterans Day, November 11, 1984, [1] on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., it is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial [2] commemorating the Vietnam War. [3] It was the first representation of an African American on the National Mall.
An aerial view of Arlington National Cemetery's east entrance and the cemetery's Women's Military Memorial in August 2013. Arlington National Cemetery is one of two cemeteries in the United States National Cemetery System that are maintained by the United States Army. Nearly 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington ...
There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington. The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.
A remarkable photograph of an American bald eagle perched atop of a veteran's gravestone went viral on Memorial Day, and reminded the nation the true reason for the national holiday.Sunday evening ...
In the late 1970s a group was formed to create a memorial to the American veterans of the Vietnam War. A site for the memorial was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate on June 30, 1980. Shortly thereafter a competition to design the memorial, which had to include the names of all Americans killed in the war or were still missing.