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Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

"There's a different reason why someone would come here than, say, Pere Lachaise," says Marilyn Yolam, author of The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds. "…there's nothing else like it in the United States. You cannot help but have a sense of American history and patriotism."  Many come to see the grave of John F. Kennedy, but there's something about the fields filled with 360,000 small white tablets, each one marking the grave of a U.S. soldier, that is unforgettable.

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