Arlington

[jmcquate]

The cemetery is open to cars one a year on Christmas day. If you are in town on Christmas, I highly recommend going. They have wreaths on every grave this year.

 

[wink]

January 2012. Looks very different in the snow. In any case, a sight to see.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Hell of a vet Wink....I assume that is a family member of yours?

Merry Christmas everyone

 

[wink]

Hell of a vet Wink....I assume that is a family member of yours?

Merry Christmas everyone

Yep. Father in Law. Enlisted off the Idaho farm without a diploma. He retired a PhD and O-6 courtesy the US Army. Completed a second career as a University professor. Had a beautiful daughter as well.

 

[RedFive]

I've never been to Arlington, but I've been to many of our cemeteries in Europe -- Anzio and Epinal, to name a couple. In Epinal they rubbed sand into my great uncle's headstone so the letters would stand out. Comparing the two photos above, @wink's photo looks like they were all rubbed (or painted in?) but @jmcquate's looks like what I saw overseas: no filling, just engraved. Why do the two photos look different?

What I'm talking about below...

 

[wink]

At Normandy MoH recipients are in Gold. It seems to be up to the cemetary whether black inlaid or not. At Arlington the style has changed. Notice the marker behind my father in law is filled in black. My father in law's stone is outlined. I hear Arlington is going to plain engraving. No inlaid color.