Friday, October 23, 2009

May They Rest In Peace!


How many people are buried at Arlington?
More than 260,000 people are buried at Arlington Cemetery. Arlington National Cemetery conducts approximately 5,400 burials each year. Funerals, including interments and inurnments, average 20 a day. Arlington National Cemetery has the second-largest number of people buried of any national cemetery in the United States. The largest of the 130 national cemeteries is the Calverton National Cemetery, on Long Island, near Farmingdale, New York. That cemetery conducts more than 7,000 burials each year.

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