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May 23, 2026

Trump’s proposed arch threatens to obscure the view of the
Lincoln Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery, The arch will
not frame the nation’s honored dead, but the home built by
enslaved Americans and once owned by Confederate General Robert
E. Lee, The US government bought Lee’s property in 1864, and by
August began to bury the bodies of Civil War soldiers there, By
the end of the Civil War more than 16,000 Civil War Soldiers were
buried at Arlington National Cemetery, The first official
Memorial Day ceremony took place at Arlington National Cemetery
on May 30, 1968, Then-congressman James Garfield, who had served
in the War, spoke, Garfield spoke of the men buried at Arlington,
They fought to save their Government “or miserably perish."

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