Why was Rosa Parks buried in Arlington National Cemetary?
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Rosa was interred between her husband and mother at Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery in the chapel's mausoleum.
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Arlington House\n\nOn a Virginia hillside rising above the Potomac River and overlooking Washington, D.C., stands Arlington House. The 19th-century mansion seems out of place amid the more than 250,000 military grave sites that stretch out around it. Yet, when construction began in 1802, the estate was not intended to be a national cemetery.\n\nArlington House "Custis-Lee Mansion"\n\nThe mansion, which was intended as a living memorial to George Washington, was owned and constructed by the first president's adopted grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, son of John Parke Custis who himself was a child of Martha Washington by her first marriage and a ward of George Washington. Arlington won out as a name over Mount Washington, which is what George Washington Parke Custis first intended calling the 1,100-acre tract of land that he had inherited at the death of his father when he was 3.
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HE should be buried propally. It is inhumane and I don't think he would want his body to be em blamed.
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John Lennon was cremated. The whereabouts of his remains were not released to the public. Yoko probably has them in an urn, kept secret so his grave wouldn't become a shrine like Jim Morrison's.
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actually they do.  I know down in New Orleans you have a tomb for I think it was a hundred years.  They cant put then underground because they are below sea level and the ground is too wet.  Here in Holland its twenty-five years unless you pay for the plot of land (really expensive.) Reason is because this is a really small country and a lot of people in it.  They just don't have the room for all of the people.   Once they remove the body for the plot to be reused they cremate the body.
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that's pretty simple. Just ask whoever is in charge at the cemetery. They should know the answer. You could also plant a tree of remembrance in your own yard. My thoughts and prayers are with you in your difficult time.
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Grant is buried in Grant's tomb.
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Im sorry for you loss.  I hope this will help you and your friend. Because he was a veteran (military) he should be eligable for burial benefits in a national cemetery.  In some cases, there is no cost to the family.  My grandfather was buried in a natinal cemetary when passed on several years back, and i don't beleive my grandmother was charged anything, but im not 100% sure.\n\nHeres the link to the natinal cemetary admin. page.  It has all the information on the national cemetery's (including benefits etc.).  There located in almost every state.  I hope this helps you.  \n\nhttp://www.cem.va.gov/burial.htm
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to the burial ground.
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I figured I'd be buried for a long time, but lately I've been considering cremation.\n\nIt's more cost effective for one (cremation urns are commonly 10 times less expensive than coffins). Plus I'll be safe against grave robbers. :)\n\nSecondly, my main reason for wanting to be buried was so that my body could naturally decompose back into the earth, only it'll be damn difficult to get back to the earth if there's a coffin in my way.\n\nThirdly, not only in Pagan religions (one of which I follow), but in many others as well, there are rituals that include burning things (like food offerings, written wishes, etc.) in order to send them to the gods. Well, that's certainly where I'm hoping to end up, so perhaps burning my body will assist me in my journey there.\n\nIf I decide to be cremated, however, I'd still like a memorial stone set up somewhere that my family and friends can visit and leave flowers by. I feel it helps in the grieving process for many people to be able to visit the grave of their deceased, and if it so happens that that would help someone come to terms with my passing, I would not want to deny them that.\n\nHowever, if all goes well, I have a very long time to think about it.
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So many people died, there was fields of poppies that were so bright red from the blood of the people who have died.  There were too many people to make gravestones for so the poppies represented the people who have died..and they still do.
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I know this is not the answer you were looking for, but maybe it will help. My mother was cremated, so she has no final resting place, as such. So, what I did was, I created a place to honor her, near to my home. Anytime I want to go there, I can. Good Luck!!
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Grant's Tomb is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), an American Civil War General and the 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826–1902). The tomb complex is a United States Presidential Memorial
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why would you bury a survivor??
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4: The Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery is also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and has never been officially named. The Tomb of the Unknowns stands atop a hill overlooking Washington, D.C.\n\nOne of the more popular sites at the Cemetery, the Tomb is made from Yule marble quarried in Colorado. It consists of seven pieces, with a total weight of 79 short tons (72 metric tons). The Tomb was completed and opened to the public April 9, 1932, at a cost of $48,000.\n\nIt was at first the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier." Other unknown servicemen were later buried there, and the name became "Tomb of the Unknowns."\n\nUnknown Soldier of World War I, interred November 11, 1921. President Warren G. Harding presided. \nUnknown Soldier of World War II, interred May 30, 1958. President Dwight Eisenhower presided. \nUnknown Soldier of the Korean War, interred May 30, 1958. President Dwight Eisenhower presided, Vice President Richard Nixon acted as next of kin. \nUnknown Soldier of the Vietnam War, interred May 28, 1984. President Ronald Reagan presided. The remains of the Vietnam Unknown were disinterred May 14, 1998, and were identified as those of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael J. Blassie, whose family has reinterred him near their home in St. Louis, Missouri. It has been determined that the crypt at the Tomb of the Unknowns that contained the remains of the Vietnam Unknown will remain empty. \nThe Tomb of the Unknowns is guarded by the U.S. Army 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The 3rd U.S. Infantry ("The Old Guard") began guarding the Tomb April 6, 1948.
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Rosa Parks\nCivil Rights Figure\n\nName at birth: Rosa Louise McCauley\n\nIn 1955, Rosa Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, an African-American living in a city with laws that strictly segregated blacks and whites. When Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man, she was arrested and fined. The subsequent bus boycott by African-Americans, led by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., caused a national sensation that eventually led to widespread desegregation in the United States and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Over time, Parks became a national icon of civil rights and African-American pride. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996.
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My mom was a Catholic. When she died she was cremated and we had her ashes installed in one of the crypts of a Catholic Chruch. I was one of the designers for memorials parks in the 70's but lately I made an anti-thesis to that claiming that big areas of land in the metropolis should belong to the living and not to the dead and I supported my works with designs of high rise building for cremated deads complete with whatever amenities needed in memorial chapels and crematorium. I believe Catholic acceptance of cremation. started officially in the late seventies.