Forgotten war that’s only mentioned on the graves at Arlington cemetery

Miércoles, 15 de Octubre de 2008 :: By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 15/10/08): It is 2.30pm on a weekday afternoon. Sunlight filters through the willow oaks and beech, descending from a perfect blue sky. Beneath the trees, rows of marble headstones stretch away, seemingly without end, rising up green, closely cropped slopes towards the house of perhaps the American civil war’s most famous general, Robert E Lee. There is a stillness here that envelops everything, a silence that demands respect. Then suddenly, without warning, a rifle volley thunders out, then another, and another. A bugle sound Taps, the US army’s equivalent of the Last Post. In a separate part of the vast Arlington National Cemetery, another American hero is being laid to rest with full military honours. But in Section 60 of the cemetery, it is quiet. Here is... [read full story]