Today is June 11th, and we are scheduled to visit the Arlington National Cemetery, World War II War Memorial, and the Iwo Jima War Memorial. After meeting with our workshop groups, we all loaded up the buses and headed for Arlington. As we came up to Arlington, I didn’t realize that were already there. As you drive up there is a large rounded wall monument at the end of cul-de-sac type road. The mood was very solemn and peaceful as you walked into the cemetery. We took a tram through the vast expansion of the cemetery and visited the grave of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his family. At his gravesite there is an eternal flame always burning. JFK was buried down the hill from General Robert E. Lee’s home, because a few months before he passed on, he went to the home of the Lee’s and said as he was looking out over the capital city that he could stay there forever. And so when he was buried, Jacqueline remembered what her husband had said, and there was where he was buried. Buried just across the hill is his brother with a white cross marking his grave site. Arlington was a very neat site to see. There are over 300,000 graves and monumental memorials for those who fought and died in our country’s military service. As we were driving through, I looked out over the hills and white columned rows continued out over the hills and there was no end it seemed, and this made me think. It made me think of all those I know in the service, and how thankful I am for their loyalty and dedication to our nation. While we were in Arlington we were able to witness the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown. This was a very precise procedure, and amazing to watch. The guard took 21 steps away from his post, and paused for 21 seconds in remembrance of those lost in battle. This ceremony occurs every thirty minutes in the summer and every hour in the summer. After visiting the cemetery