Administrative Guide To Information And Burial At Arlington National Cemetery

Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.

Contents: (1) History; (2) Hours of Oper.; Staff contacts; (3) Eligibility for In-ground Burial; In-ground Burial of Cremated Remains; & Columbarium Inurnment; Requesting an Exception to Burial Eligibility Policies; Obtaining Mil. Records; Active Duty Deaths; Listing of VA Nat. Cemeteries; Arranging In-ground Burials; & Columbarium Inurnments; (4) Interment Costs; Assign. of Gravesites; Mil. Honors; Enlisted Personnel; Commissioned & Warrant Officers; Burial Flags; Headstones & Niche Covers; Memorial Markers; & Graveliners; (5) Locating a Gravesite; Gravesite Maint.; Vehicle Passes for Gravesite Visitations; Gravesite Floral Tributes; Permanent Floral Containers; & Presidential Memorial Cert.: & (6) Frequently Asked Questions.

Explains eligibility requirements and services offered for military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery.