"The government will provide at no cost to the estate of the deceased an upright, white marble headstone or white niche cover. The cemetery staff at Arlington will place the order, which goes to the National Cemetery Administration"

No.

Admission has always been free, and will almost certainly remain free forever.

Visitors are simply asked to maintain a proper level of decorum out of respect for those buried there.

No! Not even in the US of A

"With more than 300,000 people buried, Arlington National Cemetery has the second-largest number of people buried of any national cemetery in the United States. Arlington National Cemetery conducts approximately 6,400 burials each year. The largest of the 130 national cemeteries is the Calverton National Cemetery, on Long Island, near Riverhead, N.Y. That cemetery conducts more than 7,000 burials each year" arlingtoncemetery.org

The one in St Petersburg, Russia, is larger as is Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, Australia

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over the last 200 years the ground has shifted. also, at first the cemetery was used for civil war dead. there were lots of burials and not much room or caskets so they were able to place people closer together. lastly, people were actually much shorter back then.

Audie Murphy is buried in Arlington. He was the "most decorated soldier" of the US in WWII, earning over thirty awards and decorations, including the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross. He became widely known through newspaper coverage of his exploits, and his baby-faced, boyish good looks led to Hollywood offers. He starred in about sixty movies, mostly westerns. He wrote a book about his war experiences, "To Hell and Back", which Universal turned into a movie in 1955, in which he played himself. This was Universal's top-grossing movie of all time, until they released "Jaws" in 1975, by which time the dollar was worth much less than it had been in 1955. Murphy died in a plane crash near Roanoke, Virginia in 1971. Despite all his success he was not a happy person, and probably suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome, which had not been diagnosed by medical science while he was alive. He sometimes drank too much, gambled, and had to have a loaded pistol under his pillow to sleep. His marriage in the late 40s to a lovely young starlet lasted only a few months.

Jackie Kennedy Onassis wanted to be buried at Arlington National cemetery as the firstborn child of John and Jackie Kennedy is buried there.

Arlington National Cemetery is a military cemetery which covers around 624 acres. It does not have a typical street address. The official address however is, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA 22211.

Arlington National Cemetery averages about 28 funerals a day.

A coin is a sign to family the gravesite had been visited. The legend of the coin deonominations is: A penny you means you visited. A nickel means you trained with him. A dime means you served with him. A quarter means you were there with him when he was killed. The money is collected at some point and used to help maintain the cemetery.

Arlington was an estate, and the home of Robert E. Lee. Lee's wife was a granddaughter of Martha Washington and had inherited Arlington. The first southern territory the Yankees overran was Virginia just across the Potomac from Washington DC, including Arlington.

The Quartermaster General of the US Army was Montgomery Meigs. Meigs was responsible for seeing to the burial of fallen Union soldiers. Existing cemeteries were soon full. Meigs was vindictive - his son had just died in the Union service. He issued an order confiscating Arlington house and its grounds for use as a cemetery. Some time later he visited the new cemetery and found that burial crews were interring the dead in a field far distant from the house. Meigs flew into a rage, and issued specific orders that the dead were to be buried as close to the house as possible, right by the foundations. Meigs wanted to ensure that "no one would ever live in that house again", and no one has. There is no record of how the families of the dead soldiers buried right by somebody's foundation to make a point might have felt, but that does not seem to have been the sort of thing which would trouble Meigs very much. I believe any such burials close to the house were moved later.

The government eventually paid Lee's heirs something for the house and property, many years after Lee was dead.

Months before his death President Kennedy visited the Custis-Lee House, as Arlington house is now known. He marveled at the beautiful view from the veranda, and said it would be a lovely place to be buried. And that's where he is, just down the hill below General Lee's house.

Arlington is the site of the graves of many fallen American soldiers. The tomb of the unknown soldier is a particularly important monument, symbolizing the soldiers whose bodies were never identified.

Mostly United States Military veterans, but two Presidents and many senators are buried there also. There are some unmarked graves from a long time ago also. Originally it was a paupers' cemetery. Located on 600 acres in Virginia there are over 275,000 people are buried there.

Presidents : William Taft and John Kennedy

after the Civil war they needed a place to bury the dead

in a graveyard somewere with a coffin and there favourite purple dildo

A fallen Union solider from the Civil War. Arlington had been the plantation of Gen. Robert E. Lee and he owed about 90.00 in back taxes. The government took the land because they required him to come home to pay the tax and he wouldn't leave his command. So, the first Civil War dead was buried in his front yard.

Arlington National Cemetery was first used as a cemetery during the American Civil War. The site was the home of General Robert E. Lee, who married a descendant of George Washington and the Curtis family. A Union colonel wanted to make it so General Lee's home would never be used again, so he confiscated the home and began burying the Union dead on the property sometime in 1862 or 1863. After the war, the Lee family sued the US Government for compensation for the land that was taken from them. They were eventually awarded some compensation for the illegal seizure of their property.

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International law, long-standing military tradition, and human decency require that soldiers who find bodies of enemy military personnel grant those bodies a military burial. Thus, two Italian and one German P.O.W., all of whom died while in prison camps in the U.S., are buried at Arlington. In addition, a few dozen Allied nationals are buried here as well; as a token of mutual respect for fallen comrades in (Eisenhower's words) "the Great Crusade."