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  2. Military Women's Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Military Women's Memorial is located on a 4.2 acres (17,000 m 2) [147] site at the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery (although it is technically on National Park Service land). The main approach to the memorial is from Memorial Avenue.

  3. Arlington National Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    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 the largest cemetery in the United States National Cemetery System, one of two maintained by the United States Army.

  4. List of memorials and monuments at Arlington National Cemetery

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    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.

  5. US World War II women pilots now fight for military ... - AOL

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    WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers railed at the military on Wednesday over its refusal to let women pilots from World War Two be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, saying it was ...

  6. Arlington Ladies - Wikipedia

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    The Arlington Ladies are a group of women who attend the funeral of every member of the United States armed forces who is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The group also includes one man who is known as the Arlington Gentleman. [1] An Arlington Lady being escorted to a grave on May 6, 2008

  7. Arlington National Cemetery to remove a slave-depicting ... - AOL

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    ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the ...

  8. Trump campaign was warned not to take photos at Arlington ...

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    Arlington National Cemetery is the resting place for more than 400,000 service members, veterans and their families. ... spreading these lies are dishonoring the men and women of our armed forces

  9. Vietnam Women's Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The United States Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission selected Glenna Goodacre to sculpt the memorial after previously rejecting the idea for a memorial to women. Diane Carlson Evans, a former U.S. Army nurse, co-founded the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation (VWMF) in 1984 with two other veterans. It took ...