Women in Military Service for America Memorial honors those who served
The Women in Military Service for America Memorial, located on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, is the only museum in the United States dedicated to women who served in the military. Watch this video for details.
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Meet Sandra Griffin, a leader in today’s all-volunteer Arlington Ladies community. The Air Force Arlington Ladies have not missed a single airman's funeral since 1948, and Arlington Ladies for other branches also have attended services at Arlington National Cemetery for decades. We're not professional mourners,” Griffin says. We're here because we're representing the Air Force family and we want to be here because one day our families are going to be sitting there in that chair.”
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Tour of: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
On our last few hours in the Washington D.C area, we decided to take a tour of the world famous Arlington National Cemetery.
It is a military cemetery established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee.
The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. and near The Pentagon.
It is a truly remarkable place, where ex-presidents lye.
The sights include:
2:00 John. F. Kennedy Gravesite. Includes the Eternal Flame.
2:28 World War 2 Repatriation Section.
2:48 History into the Cemetery.
3:11 Sir John Greer Dill Memorial Statue.
3:29 Guide talks about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
3:57 The Arlington Memorial Amphitheater.
4:26 USS Maine Memorial.
4:43 Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle Memorials and Iran Hostage Memorial.
4:55 The original Arlington Amphitheater.
6:08 The Women in Military Service for America Memorial.
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A salute to all U.S. Military Veterans and Active Duty
Crawl 5280 salutes our U.S. Military Vets and active duty service Men and Woman. There is no way we can repay you for your service to our country... So the least we can do is thank you wholeheartedly and entertain you with shenanigans. THANK YOU!
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US Military Celebrates Women in the Armed Forces
On March 8th, International Women's Day, events worldwide celebrate the achievements of women, past and present. Leading up to that day, the U.S. military is celebrating the women who have served in the United States armed forces. A new documentary on women in the military premiered this week at Arlington National Cemetary's Women's Memorial.
Driving Downtown - Arlington DC 4K - USA
Driving Downtown Streets - Clarendon Boulevard - Arlington Virginia USA - Episode 49.
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Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the highest-income county in the United States by median family income, though it has the highest concentration of singles in the region. Arlington is the second-largest principal city of the Washington metropolitan area. The county is often referred to in the region simply as Arlington or Arlington, Virginia.
Due to the county's proximity to downtown Washington, D.C., Arlington is headquarters to many departments and agencies of the federal government of the United States, including the Department of Defense (DoD) at the Pentagon, Drug Enforcement Administration, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It is also home to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The many federal agencies, government contractors, and service industries contribute to Arlington's stable economy. Arlington is also the location of national memorials and museums, including Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon Memorial, the Marine Corps War Memorial, and the United States Air Force Memorial.
Economy
Largest Employers:
# Employer # of Employees
1 Department of Defense 24,000
2 Arlington County 7,555
3 Department of Homeland Security 7,300
4 Deloitte 7,000
5 Department of Justice 5,300
6 Department of State 5,200
7 Accenture 4,500
8 FDIC 2,900
9 Virginia Hospital Center 2,698
10 Leidos 2,300
11 National Science Foundation 2,200
12 Lockheed Martin 2,187
13 Environmental Protection Agency 2,100
14 General Services Administration 1,970
15 Marriott International 1,950
16 Booz Allen Hamilton 1,400
17 Corporate Executive Board 1,279
18 Bureau of National Affairs 1,015
19 CACI 813
20 Marymount University 726
Landmarks
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is an American military cemetery established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's home, Arlington House (also known as the Custis-Lee Mansion). It is directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., north of the Pentagon. With nearly 300,000 graves, Arlington National Cemetery is the second-largest national cemetery in the United States.
The Tomb of the Unknowns, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, stands atop a hill overlooking Washington, DC. President John F. Kennedy is buried in Arlington National Cemetery with his wife and some of their children. His grave is marked with an Eternal Flame. His brothers, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy, are also buried nearby. William Howard Taft, who was also a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, is the only other President buried at Arlington.
Other frequently visited sites near the cemetery are the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, commonly known as the Iwo Jima Memorial, the U.S. Air Force Memorial, the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, the Netherlands Carillon and the U.S. Army's Fort Myer.
The Pentagon
The Pentagon in Arlington is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. It was dedicated on January 15, 1943 and it is the world's largest office building. Although it is located in Arlington, the United States Postal Service requires that Washington, D.C. be used as the place name in mail addressed to the six ZIP codes assigned to The Pentagon.[94]
The building is pentagon-shaped in plan and houses about 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel. It has five floors and each floor has five ring corridors. The Pentagon's principal law enforcement arm is the United States Pentagon Police, the agency that protects the Pentagon and various other DoD jurisdictions throughout the National Capital Region.
Built during the early years of World War II, it is still thought of as one of the most efficient office buildings in the world. It has 17.5 miles (28 km) of corridors, yet it takes only seven minutes or so to walk between any two points in the building.
Volunteers Place Thousands Of American Flags On Graves To Honor Veterans
round 1,000 volunteers will place miniature American flags alongside the graves of service men and women as part of a Memorial Day weekend tribute. Joy Benedict reports.
Believe Styper (Memorial Day Tribute) by Gerald Bickel
Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday which occurs every year on the final Monday of May. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. By the 20th century, Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died while in the military service. It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.
Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries.
Annual Decoration Days for particular cemeteries are held on a Sunday in late spring or early summer in some rural areas of the American South, notably in the mountains. In cases involving a family graveyard where remote ancestors as well as those who were deceased more recently are buried, this may take on the character of an extended family reunion to which some people travel hundreds of miles. People gather on the designated day and put flowers on graves and renew contacts with kinfolk and others. There often is a religious service and a dinner on the ground, the traditional term for a potluck meal in which people used to spread the dishes out on sheets or tablecloths on the grass. It is believed that this practice began before the American Civil War and thus may reflect the real origin of the memorial day idea.
Memorial Day is not to be confused with Veterans Day; Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving, while Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans.
Top 14 Tourist Attractions in Arlington - Travel Virginia
Top 14 Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Arlington - Travel Virginia:
Arlington National Cemetery, Tomb of the Unknowns, U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, John F. Kennedy Grave Site, Pentagon Memorial, Arlington House The Robert E. Lee Memorial, The Pentagon, Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Mount Vernon Trail, Theodore Roosevelt Island Park, The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, Signature Theatre, DEA Museum & Visitors Center, Netherlands Carillon
Driving Through Lee Highway (Rt 29) - Arlington, Virginia , USA | Residential Areas
Lee Highway (also known as Rt. 29) is one of several main thoroughfares through Arlington.
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The Lee Highway was a national auto trail in the United States, connecting New York City and San Francisco, California, via the South and Southwest. After receiving a letter on January 15, 1919, from Dr. Samuel Myrtle Johnson of Roswell, New Mexico, David Carlisle Humphreys of Lexington, Virginia, put out a call for a meeting in Roanoke, Virginia, to form a new national highway association. On December 3, 1919, five hundred men from five states met in Roanoke to officially form the Lee Highway Association. The auto trail was named after Robert E. Lee
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Introduction to Arlington, Virginia.
Arlington is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the west bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C. Although sometimes referred to as a city, Arlington is actually a county which contains no incorporated towns or cities within its boundaries. Originally part of the 10-mile square area set aside in 1791 for the nation’s capital, the land now comprising Arlington County was returned to the Commonwealth of Virginia by the U.S. Congress in 1846 and was known at the time as Alexandria County. In 1852, the independent City of Alexandria was incorporated from a portion of the County, leading to confusion, as two adjacent municipal entities continued to share the same name (Alexandria). The confusion was resolved in 1920, when Alexandria County renamed itself Arlington County, borrowing its name from the Arlington National Cemetery, which had been established during the Civil War on the grounds of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's former home, Arlington House.
Although best known generally as the home of the Pentagon, The Iwo Jima War Memorial, and Arlington National Cemetery, the County is also an important employment center. The Federal Government accounts for the lion's share of the roughly 200,000 jobs in Arlington, but high-tech companies have become increasingly prominent, as have several major associations, Fortune 500 companies, and other nationally known employers. The County’s residential population is among the most highly educated in the nation and is increasingly diverse. Arlington is the home of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and is serviced by the Orange, Blue and Yellow lines of the Washington Metro. The County is traversed by two Interstate highways, I-66 and I-395; as well as by the George Washington Memorial Parkway.
Arlington Area Attractions
The name Arlington is synonymous in many people's minds with Arlington National Cemetery, the most famous national cemetery in the United States. Veterans from all the nation's wars are buried in the cemetery, as are two former Presidents (John F. Kennedy and William Howard Taft). Also located in Arlington are the Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, and several notable memorials, including the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial (also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial), the U.S. Air Force Memorial, and the Women in Military Service for America Memorial.
Other attractions in Arlington include the Arlington Arts Center, founded in 1976 and housed in the historic Maury School; the Arlington Historical Museum, housed in a two-story brick structure built in 1891 and currently standing as the oldest school building in Arlington County. The Ball-Sellers house, a one-room log cabin with a loft built by a farmer named John Ball in 1742, is a rare example of an ordinary person's dwelling of the 1700s. The Ellipse Arts Center is a 3,000 square foot visual arts facility which opened in 1990, and presents a diverse schedule of high quality programs in the visual arts. A wealth of other attractions abound in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, including the following:
The National Mall
Ford's Theatre
The National Archives
National Air and Space Museum
International Spy Museum
Lincoln Theatre
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Chinatown
African American Civil War Memorial
Blair House
Folger Shakespeare Library
National Geographic Society
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
National Building Museum
Visitors to Arlington can take the very short trip to the other side of the Potomac, where the city of Washington hosts several major league professional sports franchises. These include football's Redskins (NFL), baseball's Nationals (MLB), basketball's Wizards (NBA) and Mystics (WNBA), hockey's Capitals (NHL), soccer's DC United (MLS), and lacrosse's Bayhawks (MLL).
Tahoma National Cemetery
This video is a tribute to the men and women who have served in the military and honored at Tahoma National Cemetery, in Kent, Washington. Produced by Millstream Video, it depicts a Committal Service of a veteran, performed by the Native American Veteran Service Organization.
Obama Marks Milestone During Seventh Memorial Day Ceremony at Arlington
President Barack Obama marked his seventh Memorial Day as commander in chief Monday, noting that it is the first in 14 years in which the United States is not engaged in a massive ground war overseas.
“On this day,” Obama said, “we honor the sacrifice of the thousands of American service members — men and women — who gave their lives since 9/11, including more than 2,200 American patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan.”
The president’s speech was preceded by a wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Thousands around the world honor the US military for Memorial Day
Observances were held across the nation this Memorial Day to honor the men and women in uniform who gave their lives.
Thank You For Your Service
November 2015 - For more than 150 years Arlington National Cemetery has honored our Nation's Heroes. It has evolved from a place of necessity to a national shrine to those who have honorably served our Nation during times of war, including every military conflict in American history, and times of peace. The cemetery is the final resting place for more than 400,000 active duty service members, veterans and their families. ‘Service to country’ is the common thread that binds all who are honored and remembered here. The cemetery remains active conducting between 27 and 30 funeral services each day.
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Bush, Kerry mark Memorial Day at national cemetery
1. US President George W. Bush and US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld arrive at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
2. Bush with hand over heart, pulls out with delivery of wreath, walks toward tomb to lay wreath
3. Bush with hand over heart; saluting after wreath has been laid
4. Honour guard at Tomb of Unknown Soldier
5. Arlington amphitheatre, zoom in to Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence:
The central idea of our nation, that freedom is the right of every person, that it is worth fighting for, even dying for. And it is each generation's charge to ensure that freedom endures. The heroes that rest in these hills understood that. And so they fought, first on our own land, and later across the globe. And that idea - freedom - is why America's young men and young women fight today.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:
Since the hour this nation was attacked we have seen the character of the men and women who wear our country's uniform in places like Kabul and Kandahar and Mosul and Baghdad. We have seen their decency and their brave spirit. Because of their fierce courage, America is safer. Two terrorist regimes are gone forever and more than 50 (m) million souls now live in freedom.
8. First Lady Laura Bush
9. Crowd waving flags
10. Elderly couple in crowd
11. Elderly veteran with head bowed
12. Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry at Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
13. Kerry looking at medals and photo of William Bronson, who served in the Navy in the Vietnam war
14. Kerry and the family of William Bronson laying a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
15. Kerry hugging Barbara Bronson, a WW II veteran and mother of William Bronson
16. WWII veterans laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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US President George W. Bush observed Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday with praise for the fierce courage of US service members in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He also said two terror regimes were gone and that America was safer because of their bravery.
Bush praised the spirit of those wearing the American uniform around the world during a rain-sprinkled speech to several hundred at the national cemetery in Washington state
Earlier, Bush along with General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, which holds the unidentified remains of US soldiers who fought and died in several wars.
Bush's Democratic rival for the presidency, Senator John Kerry, paid a solemn early morning visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, offering a quiet Memorial Day counterpoint to Bush's tribute at Arlington National Cemetery.
Senator Kerry visited the memorial with the family of William Bronson of Gardner, Massachusetts, who died in 1976 from a seizure related to a head wound he received while serving in Vietnam in 1968.
Kerry worked with Bronson's family and the Navy to have Bronson's name inscribed on the black granite wall.
The name was recently inscribed and will be officially enrolled during ceremonies later on Monday.
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RAW: 20 homeless vets laid to rest with honors at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery
Although most didn't have the honor of a family member witnessing their burial, 20 homeless veterans were laid to rest with military honors on April 26, 2017 at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
Memorial Day ceremony for fallen US soldiers in Afghanistan - Daily Mail
Christian Jacobs' (top right) celebrated his father, Sgt Christopher James Jacobs (bottom left), who died in 2011 when Christian was just eight-months-old at Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day. Deandra Christiansen (left), 16, whose veteran father, Eric, passed away in April 2013 at the age of just 45, remembered him at Great Lakes cemetery. And Hillary Clinton and husband Bill honored the troops at a parade in New York (bottom right).
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Watch Changing of the Guard at Arlington National Cemetery in 4K
Twenty-one steps south. Face east 21 seconds. Face north 21 seconds. Twenty-one steps north. Face east 21 seconds. Face south 21 seconds. Repeat until relieved.
Thus is the meticulous routine performed by the select few chosen for the honor of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, located in Arlington National Cemetery, just outside of Washington, D.C. These Tomb Guard Sentinels, elite volunteer members of the U.S. Army's 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, watch the Tomb 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, rain or shine -- and have done so for almost 80 years.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was constructed in 1921, after Congress approved the burial of an unidentified U.S. soldier from World War I, with other Unknowns interred since. The Tomb has been guarded year-round continuously since 1937, when the first 24-hour guards were posted. Since April 1948, sentinels from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, have been watching over the hallowed memorial.
The above video shows a complete changing of the guard ceremony edited together from three different ceremonies all recorded on May 20, 2015. To watch the video at full resolution, be sure to choose the 4K option in the YouTube player.
The video was shot and produced by Justin Scuiletti. Special thanks to Arlington National Cemetery and Sgt. 1st Class Nicolas Morales for helping in the production of this video.
Veterans visit the World War II memorial and Arlington National Cemetery Part 1 of 3
In this series, part 1 of 3, we look at the panhandle veterans that visited the war memorials in Washington D.C. and visit with these men and women who so courageously served our country.
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