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arlington national cemetery: views from above

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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.
image 16		 A closer view of the east side of the Memorial Amphitheater with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the foreground.
image 17		 A beautiful west view of the Memorial Amphitheater with view of the stage.
image 18		 The Kennedy memorial with its eternal flame and markers for the former president, the first lady, and their children who died in infancy.
image 19		 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.
image 21		 View of the Tomb of the Unknowns
image 22		 Tomb of the Unknown
image 23		 Tomb of the Unknowns
image 24		 View of gravesites
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View of gravesites with Arlington House in the background.
image 26		 View of gravesites with the Old Amphitheater in the left background.
image 27		 View of one of gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
image 28		 Private monuments stand intermixed with government-issue headstones in this cemetery section. Private monuments are no longer permitted.
image 30		 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.
image 32		 A movable pavilion stands beside a drive in the cemetery.
image 33		 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.
image 34		 View of one of gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
image 35		 View of Section 2 in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Headstones and morning shadows pattern the green lawns of the cemetery.
image 37		 The trees of Arlington are tended by grounds crews and occasionally by professional arborists volunteering their service.
image 38		 View of one of the sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
image 39		 A young tree is allowed to grow without competition from neighbors for light, water and air.
image 40		 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.
image 42		 Plantings have kept the cemetery beautiful with a wide variety of species.
image 43		 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.
image 44		 View of the Confederate Memorial
image 45		 View of gravesites
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View of one of the gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
image 47		 View of one of the gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
image 48		 View of one of the gravesite sections in Arlington National Cemetery.
image 49		 View of six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
image 50		 View of six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
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View of three of the six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
image 52		 Side view three of the six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
image 53		 A closer view two of the six Columbariums at Arlington National Cemetery.
image 54		 View of the Pentagon overlooking the Potomac River with Washington, D.C., in the background.
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November 2005 Fall Photos


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