Word: arlington
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...where about 100,000 were eventually resettled. It was not until 1997 that Washington officially acknowledged the valor of the Hmong soldiers. A small stone with a copper plaque was placed in their honor between the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame in Arlington National Cemetery. (Read "A Blackbird's Song...
...named the Afghan Church. This was built in 1847 by the British in memory of the soldiers killed in the unsuccessful Afghan war between 1838 and 1843. It will be highly embarrassing for a Nobel Peace Prize - winning U.S. President if he has to build an Afghan Church in Arlington National Cemetery. Thomas Chaze Mumbai...
...Sabangan's photo of people displaced by floods in the Philippines; for surprises, like the shot Kate Westaway took of a playful humpback whale while she was snorkeling; and for poetry, like Douglas Mills' resonant picture of the Kennedy family at the burial of Senator Edward Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery - a poignant moment captured after all the other cameras had turned away...
...caught the mistake," the investigation concluded. McDowell, of Colorado Springs, and Gramith, of Eagan, Minn., "were dedicated warriors who lost their lives trying to maintain proficient at an attack necessary to save other Americans' lives on the ground." Their co-mingled remains are buried under a single headstone at Arlington National Cemetery...
...obligation to be honest when you're talking to the government or to government agents," says Michael O'Neill, criminal law professor at George Mason University in Arlington, Va. Whether the Justice Department opts to prosecute the pair "would all be based on what it is they said to those agents." Even if the two were then welcomed into the White House, they could still face a trespassing charge if they were granted permission based on a lie. (Read "Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge...