The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
Author:
R. Conrad Stein
Illustrator:
Richard Wahl
Publication:
1979 by Children's Press
Genre:
History, Non-fiction
Series:
Cornerstones of Freedom (Illustrated Cover with White/Colored Stripe)
Pages:
32
Current state:
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Thousands of tourists come each year to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. It is just across the Potomac from Washington, D.C. Here are buried many of the men and women who gave their lives for America. Join an old soldier as he walks through this historic place and stops by the graves of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Sen. Robert Kennedy, Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and many other famous Americans.
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