After visiting the FDR Memorial, we headed to Arlington Cemetary. I'm not sure if I would be comfortable paying respects to my loved ones amongst tourists, but I guess if you're important enough to be buried at Arlington, then you're gonna be important enough to have a lot of visitors.

Arlington Cemetary was the home of one of Robert E. Lee's family members. The story is that the Union started using it to bury Civil War soldiers basically to piss him off. Apparently, he had met with President Lincoln before the Civil War (to possibly head up the army from the North) and agreed with the President on everything -- except for slavery. And as a result, he headed up the army from the South instead. The family member who had owned the property failed to pay taxes on it so ownership of the property went to the government. The Union, feeling slighted by Lee, decided to bury soldiers there.

Anyway, there was a lot of walking in the cold, but we got to see the sites of the Kennedy graves and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Changing of the Guard:

The guards are patrolling in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 24 hours a day, not out of fear that someone will vandalize the tomb, but out of respect for the soldiers who gave their lives. We got to see the Changing of the Guard and watched as a school group presented a wreath.