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Recovery efforts for WWII remains were well underway when the Korean War broke out in 1950 and put a halt to them. When that war ended, in 1953, the US Army was working to recover fallen Americans from two wars. As a result, the Unknown Soldiers from WWII and Korea were interred simultaneously. Also, sometimes a real-life Rambo does survive his valorous action on the battlefield.

This week’s Ghost of Arlington are:

1. Army Staff Sergeant Alton Knappenberger (Section 59, Grave 3193)
2. Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Paderewski (Formerly in the USS Maine  Memorial)
3. Army General John J. Pershing (kind of)

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We've got 1930s newsreel sound clips this week (Fancy!) which talk about the time the US Army attack US WWI veterans in Washington, DC on the order of the US president... true story. If you don't know about the Bonus Army in 1932, you need to hear it; not exactly the "support our troops" mentality of politicians today. Oh, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier gets its permanent sarcophagus and epitaph 10 years after its initial dedication but the ceremony doesn't  go quites as planned.

This week’s Ghost of Arlington are:

1. Civilian James Parks (Section 15E, Grave 2)
2. Army Private First Class William Hushka (Section 18, Grave 2262)
3. Army Private First Class Eric Carlson  (Section 18, Grave 5217)

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This week we cover the selection of an unidentified American World War I soldier who was returned from Europe to be buried in The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Armistice Day 1921.

This week’s Ghost of Arlington is:

The World War I Unknown Soldier 

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Eeek! The podcast was plugged by Doctrine Man, himself. How cool is that?!?! A screen shot is absolutely on the website. Also, we didn't quite make it to the story of the Unknown Soldier like I thought we would - but next week for sure. We do talk about the plans - and the planner - behind the construction of Washington, DC, the first US military aircraft, and the Great War.

This week’s Ghost of Arlington are:

1.  Army Brevet Major and Captain Pierre Charles L'Enfant (Section 2, Grave S-3)
2.  Army First Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge (Section 3, Grave 2158)

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First off, an apology. For some reason, the audio got wonky in the final third of the show. I cleaned it up the best I could but as I have said before, I really don't have any idea what I'm doing when it comes to this. This week we talk about the Spanish American War and the approval to bury Confederate dead in the cemetery.

This week's Ghost of Arlington are:

1. The USS Maine Memorial 
2. Brevet Major General (and former Confederate Lieutenant General) Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler (Section 2, Grave 1089)

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This is the second of our two-part story about the life of Montgomery Meigs. Many people with high-profile positions in the US Civil have praised  Meigs as an unsung hero of the Civil War, saying without his expert management of Union logistics, the war could have had a very different outcome. He continued to leave his mark on Washington, DC after the war - overseeing the growth of Arlington National Cemetery, the expansion of the Smithsonian Institution, and his "Big Red Barn."

This Week's Ghosts of Arlington are:

1. US Army Brevet Major General and Brigadier General Montgomery C. Meigs (Section 1, Grave 1-EH)
2. Louisa Rodgers Meigs (Section 1, Grave 1-EH)

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This week's episode is the first of a two-part story about the life of Brevet Major General Montgomery C. Meigs,, covering his birth to just before the outbreak of the Civil War, with a major focus on his two most enduring pre-war engineering projects: The Capitol Expansion and Dome, and the Washington Aqueduct project.

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After the Supreme Court ruled that Custis Lee was the legal owner of Arlington and the US Government was forced to give the property back, how did it end up back in government hands? 

This week's ghost of Arlington is:

1.  Army First Lieutenant John Meigs, the 22-year-old son of the father of Arlington National Cemetery, General Montgomery Meigs (Section 1, Grave 1-SH)

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First off, there is a partial retraction (or at least a semi-correction) of last week's story of the origin of Taps... that didn't take long! Then, after years of unsuccessful attempts to recover the property and buildings of the former Arlington plantation, the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Lee family. So, what is the US Government going to do with the 20,000 military members interred there?!

This week's ghosts are some of the former slaves who became known collectively as Freedmen and came to live on the former-Arlington Plantation:

1. Danella Warris
2. Betsy Hunter
3. Juley Fitzure
4. Stephen Young
5. Frank Docket
6. Ben Johnson

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This week we discuss some of the firsts in Arlington's history - including the first burial, the first burial with family present, the first burial of a combat casualty, the first burial of a draftee, and the first officer burial. Included is also the history of arguably history's most famous bugle call, Taps. 

This Week's Ghosts of Arlington are:

1. US Army Private William Henry Christman (Section 27, Grave 19)
2. US Army Private William H. McKinney (Section 27, Grave 98)
3. US Army Private William Reeves (Section 27, Grave  99)
4. US Army Private William Blatt (Section 27, Grave  18)
5. US Army Captain Albert Packard (Section 26, Grave 5203)

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