Arlington Cemetery

Arlington Cemetery was really interesting. It was made out of the front lawn of General Lee's home (pictured left). Because General Lee switched to the South during the Civil War when Virginia joined the South, the north was pretty upset about this. So...they decided to get back at Lee by burying their dead in his front yard! When Mrs. Lee returned after the war, she was so upset she never stepped out of the carriage and never returned to her home.

This picture was a memorial to the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.



We also got to see the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. On the tomb it says "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." The changing of the guard was quite an experience. There was to be no talking of sitting while it was going on. In fact a few school kids were whispering and the guard yelled out that there was to be no talking! Our tour guide said he had never heard the guards have to tell the audience to be quiet!