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Arlington National Cemetery’s historic Section 27 is worked in as a contractor pressure washes headstones once a year. Nearly 3,800 "citizens" or "contrabands" (former slaves who were living in Freedman's Village on the Arlington Estate) are interred in Section 27. Citizen or civilian is inscribed on their headstones.

(Photo by Jack Welsh, ANC Staff Engineer)