The United States flag stands as a powerful symbol of Memorial ... in front of more than 260,000 headstones and at the bottom of about 7,000 niche rows in the cemetery’s Columbarium Courts ...

Washington (CNN)-- Workers at Arlington National Cemetery have removed discarded grave stones that were lying in a stream bed for years until discovered by a Washington Post reporter this week.

Wayne Hanson cannot forget the man whose son’s grave did not receive a holiday wreath at Arlington National Cemetery in 2013. “We didn’t have enough for all the graves,” says Hanson ...