Arlington Cemetery Will Make An Exception For Families Who Want To Leave Photos And Momentos In Section 60

Arlington Makes Memento Exception In Section With Iraq, Afghanistan Dead -- Washington Post

Arlington National Cemetery officials, responding to complaints from upset families, will allow small photos and other mementos to be left next to headstones in Section 60, where the Iraq and Afghanistan war dead are buried.

In recent years, the families and friends of troops buried in Section 60 had transformed the plot of ground at Arlington into a living memorial to America’s long war in Iraq and its still unfinished fight in Afghanistan. Beginning in August, Arlington officials decided to treat the section by the same rules as the other parts of the cemetery and stripped the section of photographs, love letters, worry stones, crosses and coins that had been affixed to headstones for months or years.

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My Comment: It is obvious that the administrators were getting a lot of heat from a lot of families .... they are now doing the right thing.