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...whose husband signed a bill authorizing such a center 13 years ago. The President's men mingled with their predecessors in the cavernous riverside foyer, which is longer than two football fields. As fireworks burst across the Potomac, an old Kennedy friend observed: "The embers are falling on Arlington Cemetery...
...first objective was Arlington National Cemetery. After a brief memorial service outside the gates, a delegation of three gold star mothers and two veterans was formally denied entrance. One vet tried to charge the gates, shouting: "Those are my brothers in there." Another, furious, threw his plastic M-16 at the gates; it shattered into pieces. A later visit was more successful. Some 300 veterans marched to Arlington single file, five yards apart, dropping wreaths on a knoll inside the cemetery. As they knelt for a moment of silence, three memorial rifle shots rang out at a nearby funeral...
...Boston region is dividing into two groups who will approach the Lincoln Memorial from 23rd St. and Constitution Ave. respectively and try to get as close as possible to the Memorial and the adjacent Arlington Memorial Bridge, disrupting traffic along...
...OSBORNE S.P. KOERNER Captain, U.S.N.R. Arlington...
...brigade of 5,000 Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. The veterans will mount one of the most elaborate antiwar protests of the spring. Dressed in fatigues and battle ribbons and carrying plastic M-16 rifles, they will "occupy" Washington for five days, holding a memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery, lobbying on Capitol Hill, then fanning out across the city-as they have in New Jersey and elsewhere -to take over one neighborhood after another in mock "search and destroy" missions. The "Winter Soldiers"-named after the troops who stayed at Valley Forge during the bitter winter...