Author: RaymondRaymond Date: Jun 29, 2008 20:12
Report: U.S. 'preparing the battlefield' in Iran
We will need more land at Arlington National Cemetary if we go to war
with Iran......lots more land..... Arlington is filling up fast.
However, American families of the dead heros have some good news:
Arlington National Cemetery Gains 70 Acres of Land.Arlington National
Cemetery is expanding to make room to receive another generation of
honored dead
Cemetery planners rely on demographics and topography to predict that
the expansion will add 35 years to the life of Arlington cemetery,
allowing it to accept fallen warriors until 2060.
There should be room enough for 350,000 more Empire veterans,
dignitaries and unforeseen heroes, an average of 6,000 per year. So
Arlington has begun its first growth since the 1960s. Recently, the
National Park Service turned over 12 acres of woodland behind the
historic home of
Confederate General Robert E. Lee, which is at the heart of the
cemetery.
Congress also has approved putting graves on almost 50 more adjacent
acres, already owned by the military, by the end of the decade.
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