Photos

Crossing the Potomac river in Washington, you leave the District of Columbia and enter in the state of Virginia.
Virginia was part of the Confederation during the American Civil War and the Potomac was a border between North and South territories. The wife of General Robert E. Lee was the owner of a mansion in Arlington at the banks of the Potomac. Abraham Lincoln offered to hand over the command of the Union Army to General Lee, but he refused because as a Virginian did not want to fight against his own people. General Lee moved to South and this piece of land was occupied by the soldiers of the Union and soon used as a place for burials.
After the war, the Lee family sued the government and the Court ruled in Lee's favor. The Congress payed them a 150.000 Dollar indemnization.
The Arlington Cemetery is still a place where active military men, war veterans and some prominents are buried.
From the other side names on these gravestones can be readen. I preferred to show this side for discretion reasons. I think also that the memory of some of those that lie here vanished time ago.