Arlington Graves Stripped Of Personal Mementos In Controversial Clean-Up That Has Outraged Fallen Service Members' Grieving Families -- Daily Mail
* The new policy at the Virginia cemetery bans pictures and small tributes
The carefully-chosen mementos that cover graves in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery offer a deeply personal glimpse into the lives of grieving military families.
These reminders have now been scrubbed away following a new policy which has banned family and friends from placing tributes on the graves.
Headstones have been stripped of photos, drawings and poignant notes, in particular those in Section 60, home to the graves of more than 800 service members killed while doing their duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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More News On Arlington National Cemetery's Policy Of Removing Personal Mementos Of The Fallen
Arlington Cemetery Grave Personal Items Removed -- FOX News
Arlington's sweep of gravesite mementos distresses families of fallen -- Navy Times
Arlington graves stripped of personal mementos in controversial cleanup -- NBC
Arlington Cemetery didn’t change the rules -- Washington Post
In Arlington National Cemetery, let the dead tell their stories -- Washington Post
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