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Explains the change of Arlington from an exclusive estate to a armed forces cemetery. Includes modern accounts talking about Arlington and its background. "Looking across this field, we see the level of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their responsibility. All stood to safeguard America. And all carried with them memories of a family that they hoped to keep safe by their sacrifice." (President George W. Bush, 2005) Cemeteries are by their very nature tragic places, as they would never are present were it not for the undoubtedly cold hand of loss of life that will certainly take out each individual eventually. Given that simple fact, each bears its own unique history, whether the Valley of the Kings in Egypt or a tiny family story in rural Georgia. Naturally, Arlington Country wide Cemetery, relaxing as it can on the edge of the nation's capital after a hill across the Potomac River, bears its own tragic aura, but it's certainly ironic that it was never intended to be a cemetery in any way. Indeed, the land was not meant to house the nation's dead but to aid the category of the nation's father, George Washington himself. How Arlington travelled within just a few tragic weeks from stately mansion to solemn sepulcher is one of the most unusual testimonies in American background, but in many ways it is also one of the most fitting.
