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The state with the most presidential burial sites is Virginia with seven. Since its 1789 establishment, 49 people have served as Vice President of the United States. Of these, 43 have died. The state with the most vice-presidential burial sites is New York with 10. Fifteen people have served as both president and as vice president.
An aerial view of Arlington National Cemetery's east entrance and the cemetery's Women's Military Memorial in August 2013. Arlington National Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the United States National Cemetery System, one of two maintained by the United States Army. Over 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington ...
The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame is a presidential memorial at the grave site of assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. This permanent site replaced a temporary grave and eternal flame used at the time of Kennedy's state funeral on November 25, 1963, three days after his assassination.
As of May 2006, there were 367 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery, nine of whom are Canadians. Alan Louis Eggers, Medal of Honor recipient for World War I. A. George Emerson Albee (1845–1918), US Army officer; received for actions during the Indian Wars. Beauford T. Anderson (1922–1996), US Army soldier during ...
The grave of Robert F. Kennedy is a historic grave site and memorial to assassinated United States Senator and 1968 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy located in section 45 of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. It was dedicated on December 6, 1971, and replaced a temporary grave in ...
President Joe Biden honored the nation’s fallen soldiers in an annual Memorial Day service on Monday. The president visited Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to participate in a ...
President George H. W. Bush lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda on December 3, 2018. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and other civilians who have rendered distinguished ...
[130] Kennedy thus became only the second president to be buried at Arlington, after Taft, [137] which meant that, at that time, the two most recent presidents to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda were buried at Arlington. [71] Kennedy was buried at Arlington exactly two weeks to the day after he last visited there, when he came for Veterans ...