Top Ten Moment - Arlington national Cemetery

Thursday, the 29th of April, took us to Arlington. It is an incredibly beautiful place. Anyone who knows me well, knows of my love of prisons and cemeteries, so this was right up my ally.

Andrew has a great-grandfather buried there so we were able to get a pass to drive through rather than walk, and I was quite glad for that. Quite a walk it would have been. Our wheels allowed us to see family graves, JFK's grave, (incredible memorial to him, by the way), as well as several funerals happening that day with their uniformed tributes and 21 gun salutes, and The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Wow. (And by the way, our Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, and if you add up the numbers; 1+7+7+6, it equals 21. 21 gun salute. And there you go. Don't say you never learnt nothin' here.)

So enjoy some pictures of our day, and there is a video at the bottom which will give you a feel for the ceremony of the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier if you've never seen it. I was amazed. It is a rather long video, and I was standing right in the middle, trying to avoid making it look like a tennis match - back and forth and back and forth - so it's a rather unprofessional video. I never claimed otherwise, though.




Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown



How's that for a view?


The fairly new Air Force Monument. Cool, huh? (Photo courtesy of Heidi)


A Sailor funeral




The Kennedys

Here's the link for the video if you can't see it, or if it's chopped or other such fun.