We did tour the interior of the Capitol and even saw some of a session of the House of Representatives. I don't know who was speaking but there was no one there to listen to him except those 25 or so in the gallery with us. Our government sure does operate strangely!
At Arlington Cemetery we did see the tomb of the unknown soldier and Kennedy's grave site. We found it interesting that not all the tombstones are like these shown below. These are the standard grave markers but prior to about 15 years ago it was permissible to use other than the standard marker. There were plenty of markers other than those you expect to see.
One of my classmates is buried in Arlington and I found out where he was buried and our last day in DC we drove to Arlington and located his grave site. As you can see, his marker is not the standard style. I did get surprised when we found his grave that his wife had also passed away 2 years ago.
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