{"product_id":"on-hallowed-ground-the-story-of-arlington-national-cemetery-9780802715494","title":"On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery","description":"\u003cp\u003eCreated at the end of the Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery has become a part of the landscape as fixed in the national imagination as the White House or the Capitol building. The mansion at Arlington's heart, and the rolling hills on which it sits, had been the family plantation of Robert E. Lee before he joined the Confederacy; strategic to the defense of Washington, Arlington became a Union encampment, a haven for freedmen, and a pauper's cemetery for soldiers dying in the nation's bloodiest conflict. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the passage of time, new layers of meaning were added to Arlington, which would become our nation's most honored shrine. More than three hundred thousand rest in Arlington's 624 acres, representing every war the nation ever fought. Each tombstone tells a story, from the Tomb of the Unknowns, so carefully tended today, to the eternal flame at John F. Kennedy's grave to the final resting places of ordinary citizen-warriors sleeping among Arlington's rolling green hills. Their stories, and the cemetery's time-honored rituals-the horse-drawn caissons, the rifle salutes, the sounding of Taps-still speak to us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert M. Poole \u003c\/b\u003eis an editor and writer whose assignments for \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e have taken him around the world. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eExplorers House: National Georgraphic and the World It Made\u003c\/i\u003e, and is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e. Poole has been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePreservation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527308546322,"sku":"9780802715494","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35e00b8c-3c2f-491d-b965-abef3094cb92.jpg?v=1731297041","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-hallowed-ground-the-story-of-arlington-national-cemetery-9780802715494","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}