Arlington National Cemetery opens 27-acre expansion with burial of two Civil War veterans
By NIKKI WENTLING | STARS AND STRIPES Published: September 6, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. – With a reflective, quiet ceremony Thursday afternoon, Arlington National Cemetery officially completed its first expansion in nearly 40 years – a 27-acre swath that is expected to be filled with military dead and their families by the 2040s.
Undercurrent of enthusiasm ran through an otherwise serious event. The expansion will keep the cemetery – long viewed as a shrine to America’s fallen heroes – viable for about 10 years longer than expected. Plans for the new space, titled the Millennium Project, have been in the works since Bill Clinton was president in the 1990s.
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