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	Arlington Cemetery  Jennifer & Corey  (photos by Jennifer)
Arlington House		Unknown Soldier's tomb
		Changing of the Guard
Kennedy's Grave & Stone
	The 3 Walls

Word Problems

1. At the changing of the guard, they take 21 steps before turning and facing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers. It takes them 21 seconds to do this. How many seconds will it take to do this 30 times?
2. If Arlington Cemetery averages 20 funerals a day. How many funerals would they have over the next 5 years?
3. If there are 200 acres around the national cemetery. How many Unknown Soldier tombs can you fit in 200 acres? Use the Chart to see the measurements of the tombs.

Tombs Measurements

Answers to Word Problem

Scavenger  Hunt

Use the following web site to find the answers to these questions:

www.arlingtoncemetery.org/

1. More than 3,800 blacks from Freedman’s village are buried at Arlington.  What are two words that were on their graves? _______ and _______.

2. How much money did it take to complete and open the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers?

3. What ships were Unknown Soldiers shipped on and how many were there?

4. The Memorial Amphitheater. President Woodrow Wilson, on Oct. 15, 1915 placed how many things inside a box and sealed in the cornerstone that day?

5. What is the translation for “DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI”? 

6. What are the dimensions of the Base of the Tombs?

Answers to Scavenger  Hunt

1. Mary Ann Randolph Curtis married Robert E. Lee on June 31, 1831 and lived at Arlington House for 30 years.

2. The flags are flown at half-staff from one hour before the first funeral until one hour after the last funeral each day.

3. Arlington National Cemetery has the first largest number of people buried of any national cemetery in the United States.  If fiction tell what the first largest Cemetery?

4. The cost of a Tomb is $58,000.

5. The Sculptures name is Thomas Hudson Jones.

 Cory

            The Arlington Cemetery was designed for the burial of veterans.  This memorial was established in 1864.  More than 240,000 people are buried here.  In one part of the cemetery more than 3,800 slaves are buried there.  With more than 240,000 people buried Arlington National Cemetery, it has the second-largest number of people buried of any national cemetery in the United States.  Only Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingham, New York, has more, with more than 300,000 burials. 

Rebecca 

           The Arlington National Cemetery is located in Arlington Virginia.  There have been over four million visitors to the Arlington Cemetery as of today.   It is 200 acres long and has 260,000 people buried there.  This is also the resting-place for some of our country's presidents like William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy.  Kennedy's wife, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as well as Robert Kennedy are buried here. What makes Kennedy's grave unique is the eternal flame, which burns uninterrupted.  
          There are veterans buried at Arlington from the American Revolution through the Persian War.  In section 27, there are more than 3,800 former slaves.  The Department of the Army manages the cemetery. Funerals average about 20 a day.  The cemetery helps family members remember loved ones that have died trying to help our country.   Men and women who have died in operation Iraqi freedom, and the tragedy of the Columbia, which crashed in Houston, Texas on February 4, 2003, are also buried there.  At the following web site you can view the Pentagon in the background from Arlington Cemetery.  It displays the Pentagon still smoldering from the 9-11 attack. 

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Answers

Answer to Math Word Problem.

1.    21
   x 30
   630 steps

   2.       20
         x 365
         7,300
         x     5
       36,000

   3.    200         200             13.3
        ¸    8        ¸ 15             + 25
            25         13.3              332

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Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. Civilian or Citizen

2. 48,000

3. USS Olympia, USS Canberra, USS Brewton. 3 Ships!

4. 15 Things

5. “It is sweet and fitting to die for ones country.”

6. 8ft-Width

7. 14ft ´ 11in-Length

8. 1ft ´ 10in- Height

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1. Fact

2. Fiction

3. Fiction.  Arlington National Cemetery is the second largest and Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingham, N.Y.

4. Fiction

5. Fact

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Citation

 Nguyen, Kimberly. Arlington National Cemetary. 12 2004
Arlington National Cemetary. 15 02 2005 <www.arlingtoncemetery.org/>