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Word Problems

1. Arlington Cemetery has been used since 1864. It’s now 2006. For how many years has Arlington been a cemetery?
2. The Arlington Cemetery has funerals every weekday. That’s five days out of the week except on federal holidays.
   If 20% of the funerals are on Monday and there’s an average of 100 funerals each week, how many funerals were on Monday?

3. The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier weighs 79 short tons. Each ton is equivalent to 2000 pounds. 
   How many pounds does the tomb weigh?  

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Scavenger  Hunt

Use this website to answer these questions.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/index.htm

1. There are nearly _______unknown soldiers in Arlington National Cemetery.
2. The first graves dug in Arlington National Cemetery were by a slave on the estate.  He is also the only person buried in the cemetery that was actually born on the property. What was his name?
3.  This man was Martha Washington’s grandson and he was the first to own and construct Arlington House, who is he?
4. About how many people visit Arlington annually?
5. This famous president is commemorated with an eternal flame.  He served as president for ten months and two days until he was assassinated in November 22, 1963. Who was he?
6. Congress bought Arlington from Lee on March 3, 1883 for ________ dollars.

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Use this website to answer the following questions.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/index.htm

1. Ulysses S. Grant’s mansion is located in Arlington.

2. Kennedy’s memorial is commemorated with a silver statue.

3. The first Unknown Soldiers were interred into the cemetery on June 18th, 1812.

4. William Howard Taft was the first president to be buried in Arlington Cemetery.

5. There are Four Medal of Honor recipients in section 27.

Answers to Fact or Fiction

Arlington National Cemetery is a six hundred twenty acre resting spot for U.S. Military Veterans, people killed in American wars, and notable people that served of great importance to our country.  It is located across the Potomac River from Washington D.C. and next to the Pentagon. Over four million people visit Arlington Nation Cemetery each year.
            Arlington was the former estate of the Curtis and Lee families.  After the Civil War the cemetery was established on Robert E. Lee’s home grounds in 1864.
            The cemetery attracts many tourist and families of the dead each year.  Many people come to see the Iwo Jima Memorial, which honors U.S. Marines that fought and died in WWII.  The Netherlands Carillon and the grave of John F. Kennedy, which is marked with an eternal flame commemorates important events in our nation’s history. The “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier” is also a very popular site in the cemetery.  It consists of seven pieces and weighs seventy-nine short tons.  It was finished in 1932 and it cost forty-eight thousand dollars. The Tomb of the Unknowns attracts so many people because the changing of the guard.  This is a ceremony that takes place every hour or half an hour from April through September.  A sentinel takes twenty-one steps down the mat in front of the tomb; pauses twenty-one seconds and then return. 
             The cemetery has more than two hundred sixty graves.  They conduct about twenty-four funerals each day except on weekends and federal holidays. That totals up to about 5,400 funerals each year.  There are over 290,000 servicemen and prominent figures buried in Arlington which surpasses every cemetery in the United States except for the Long Island National Cemetery in Framingham, New York.

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Answer to Math Word Problem.

1. 142 Years
2. 20 Funerals
3. 158,000 Pounds

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Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. 5000

2. James Parks

3. George Washington Parke Custis

4. 4 Million

5. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

6. 150,000

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1. False.  Robert E. Lee’s mansion is located in Arlington.
2. False.  Kennedy’s memorial is commemorated with an eternal flame.
3. False.  The first Unknowns were interred on May 15th, 1864
4. Fact.
5. Fact.

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Citation

"Arlington National Cemetery." Arlington National Cemetery. 07 Feb. 2006 <http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/index.htm>.