Fred Smith, the FedEx founder and decorated U.S. Marine who served during the Vietnam War, will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

Visiting a national cemetery doesn't have to be a pit stop on the way to some vacation destination. Here's why it should be ...

U.S. Army Air Forces pilot 2nd Lt. Gilbert A. Rauh, who was killed in action in 1943, will be interred Monday at Arlington ...

The founding of Arlington National Cemetery was almost accidental, but hauntingly interesting. On the highest hill of the cemetery is a beautiful Greek Revival home built in 1802 and completed in ...

The creation of Arlington National Cemetery, on this day in history, June 15, 1864, began with the seizure of Robert E. Lee's Virginia home after he defected to the Confederacy in the Civil War.

Clem is just one fascinating individual among the more than 400,000 buried at Arlington National Cemetery. This sprawling memorial to the men and women who have protected our freedoms covers space ...

inurnment at Arlington National Cemetery,” the Federal Register says.”Based on recent trends, approximately 43 service members annually fit this description and were interred or inurned at ...

Landscaping volunteers from across the country work to improve Arlington National Cemetery and the FDR Memorial in Washington ...

The U.S. Army’s history is closely tied to its mounted cavalry, those soldiers who rode into battle on horseback.

Arlington National Cemetery has amassed thousands of mementos left in Section 60 on the graves of post-9/11 war dead. The collection needs a new home.

Starting in 1864, Arlington National Cemetery was transformed into a military cemetery. Bruce Dale. One afternoon in May 1861, a young Union Army officer went rushing into the mansion that ...

How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be. The fight over Robert E. Lee’s beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades ...