Arlington National Cemetery

Thousands of veterans are waiting to find out if they’ll have to make different plans for their final resting place. Potential changes for who can be buried at Arlington National Cemetery were expected to be announced already, but that has not happened.

The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts who died when the USS Oklahoma capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are being buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. The interment comes nearly four years after the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Roman W. Sadlowski had been accounted for following advanced DNA...

An independent commission is recommending that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be dismantled and taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on the renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy. Panel members on Tuesday rolled out the final list of ships, base roads, buildings and other items that they said should be…

Originally established during the Civil War, Memorial Day honors those who have died in military service for the U.S.

A caravan loaded with Maine-made balsam wreaths made its way to Arlington National Cemetery last weekend, and volunteers gathered in Virginia Saturday to place nearly 260,000 wreaths at the gravesites of fallen service members. The convoy departed Sunday from Harrington and made several stops across Maine before continuing onward to New Hampshire and Vermont on Monday. The road trip continued…

President Joe Biden delivered Veterans Day remarks from Arlington Cemetery on Thursday

President Joe Biden visited Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in observance of Veterans Day on Thursday.

Arlington National Cemetery is opening up the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Plaza Tuesday and Wednesday to members of the public and allowing visitors to lay flowers for the first time in almost a century. The historic invitation is honoring the anniversary of the tomb’s original burial 100 years ago. Entry to the plaza is typically reserved for members of…

Arlington National Cemetery could run out of space for burials in 20 years — meaning tens of thousands would lose their eligibility.

The Army plans to announce new eligibility rules for burial at Arlington National Cemetery in early 2022.

Members of the public will be allowed to walk on Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Plaza and lay flowers for the first time in almost 100 years. Arlington National Cemetery will hold special events around Veterans Day. “This is a rare opportunity for the public to walk next to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a privilege otherwise given only…

President Joe Biden has honored America’s war dead at Arlington National Cemetery

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery after their inauguration on Wednesday. Biden and Harris were joined by former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and their families.

In honor of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Army’s Presidential Salute Battery fired cannons for the 21-gun salute at the Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon.

The coronavirus pandemic almost stopped a 20-plus year holiday tradition at Arlington National Cemetery and beyond but a Maine-based charity is not letting that happen. On Monday, Arlington National Cemetery announced that Wreaths Across America, which puts thousands of wreaths on veteran’s graves there and at other cemeteries, could not hold its annual wreath-laying event this year because of...

A Maine-based charity will continue the annual holiday tradition that puts thousands of wreaths on the gravestones of veterans at Arlington National Cemetery and beyond — an event that almost didn’t happen this year because of the pandemic.

President Donald Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday in observance of Veterans Day. The visit was the president’s first public appearance since losing his reelection bid last week to President-Elect Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump’s Veterans Day visit to Arlington Cemetery has given a veneer of normalcy to a White House in tumult

The casket of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Friday. Ginsburg is the first female to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.