Arlington
National Cemetery, in Arlington,
Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United
States, established during the American Civil
War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly
the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife
Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a descendant of Martha
Washington. The cemetery is situated directly
across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
and near The Pentagon. It is served by the
Arlington Cemetery station on the Blue Line of
the Washington Metro system.
More than 290,000 people are buried in an area
of 624 acres (2.53 km2). Veterans and military
casualties from every one of the nation's wars
are interred in the cemetery, from the American
Revolution through the military actions in
Afghanistan and Iraq. Pre-Civil War dead were
reinterred after 1900.
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic
photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe
Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines
and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the
United States atop Mount Suribachi during the
Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
The photograph was extremely popular, being
reprinted in thousands of publications. Later,
it became the only photograph to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year
as its publication, and came to be regarded in
the United States as one of the most significant
and recognizable images of the war, and possibly
the most reproduced photograph of all time.
