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To: kumar who wrote (118120)	6/4/2005 1:01:43 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793964

methinks its worth keeping this perspective when talking about Arlington Since you raised the question, I've been wondering what they do with veterans eligible for burial there who want to be cremated. I haven't been there in a very long time. I don't remember any plots the size of an urn or niches in buildings. Perhaps they just bury the ashes in a full sized plot. Which would be a shame given that they're running out of room. OTOH, one of the nice things about the cemetery is the clean alignment of same-sized plots.

To: kumar who wrote (118120)	6/4/2005 4:36:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793964

Cremation is irrelevant to the issue we were discussing vis-a-vis Arlington National Cemetery, which is whether it is, even arguably, a violation of the First Amendment separation of church and state for religious symbols to be placed on the graves of military dead. In fact, some graves in Arlington National Cemetery contain cremated remains, for example, for several of the victims of 9/11 in the Pentagon, no body could be found, and for others, the remains could not be identified, so there is a mass grave with a group marker.