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arlington national cemetery: views from above
Scenes from above Arlington National Cemetery
Views from above Arlington from top left clockwise: the Columbarium, Tomb of the Unknowns, memorial and gravesite of President John F. Kennedy, Memorial Amphitheater, and the Arlington House.
(Collage designed by Kimberly Nguyen)
 
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A close up view of Arlington House.
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The Arlington National Cemetery Visitors Center sits along Memorial Drive with the cemetery's Administration Building and parking lot besides it.
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A closer back view of the administration building and visitors center. The monument of Adm. Richard Evelyn Byrd is across Memorial Drive.
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View of the Visitors Center and sections of the cemetery to the south. The Pentagon, Pentagon City and Crystal City, Va., are in the background.
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Arlington National Cemetery Visitors Center.
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The Visitors Center and its eastern entrance, closest to visitors' parking lot.
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Views of Arlington Visitors Center on the left and the Women in Military Service for America Memorial on the right.
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Memorial Amphitheater viewed from the Mall with the "Mast of the center background.
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A closer front view of of the Memorial Amphitheater.
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North view of the Memorial Amphitheater with the Woodhull Memorial Flagstaff on the right and Crystal City, Va., in the background.
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South side view of the Memorial Amphitheater surrounded by trees with the Woodhull Memorial Flagstaff in the foreground.
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A closer view of the south side of the Memorial Amphitheater.
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A closer view of the east side of the Memorial Amphitheater with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the foreground.
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A beautiful west view of the Memorial Amphitheater with view of the stage.
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The Kennedy memorial with its eternal flame and markers for the former president, the first lady, and their children who died in infancy.
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View of the mall and fountain in front of the Tomb of the Unknowns.
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A closer view of the cascading fountain in front of the Tomb of the Unknowns with gravesites in the background.
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View of the Tomb of the Unknowns
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Tomb of the Unknown
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Tomb of the Unknowns
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View of gravesites
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View of gravesites with Arlington House in the background.
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View of gravesites with the Old Amphitheater in the left background.
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View of one of gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Private monuments stand intermixed with government-issue headstones in this cemetery section. Private monuments are no longer permitted.
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View of one of sections in Arlington National Cemetery with the Pentagon in the background.
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"Gardens of stone" view at Arlington National Cemetery.
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A movable pavilion stands beside a drive in the cemetery.
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Here and there the grass has not grown back after an interment. An active cemetery, Arlington has more than two dozen funerals each week day.
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View of one of gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
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View of Section 2 in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Headstones and morning shadows pattern the green lawns of the cemetery.
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The trees of Arlington are tended by grounds crews and occasionally by professional arborists volunteering their service.
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View of one of the sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
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A young tree is allowed to grow without competition from neighbors for light, water and air.
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The cemetery flattens in section 60, and the rows are straight and long.
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View of one of the gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Plantings have kept the cemetery beautiful with a wide variety of species.
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The fountain lies at the lower end of the mall, down from the Tomb Plaza and Memorial Amphitheater. Section 6 is on its right side.
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View of the Confederate Memorial
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View of gravesites
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View of one of the gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
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View of one of the gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
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View of one of the gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
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View of six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
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View of six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
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View of three of the six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Side view three of the six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
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A closer view two of the six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
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View of the Pentagon overlooking the Potomac River with Washington, D.C., in the background.
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