Senator Edward M. Kennedy

Senator Edward M. Kennedy died on August 25, 2009, after a long fight against brain cancer. Senator Kennedy had represented the State of Massachusetts in the US Senate for 43 years. He was interred in section 45 approximately 100 feet to the south of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, on the evening of August 29, 2009. His grave is marked by a white wooden cross and marble footstone identical to his brother Robert’s. He was eligible for burial in Arlington National Cemetery by virtue of his service in the United States Senate and his honorable service with the United State Army from 1951-1953.

Maj. Glenn Miller

Remember Glenn Miller, the noted composer, arranger, trombonist, and Big Band leader? Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, U.S. Army Air Corps has been missing in action since Dec. 15, 1944. Miller was eligible for a memorial headstone in Arlington National Cemetery as a service member who died on active duty whose remains were not recoverable. At his daughter's request, a stone was placed in Memorial Section H, Number 464-A on Wilson Drive in Arlington National Cemetery in April 1992. During World War II, Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band, forerunner of the Airmen of Note, entertained more than a million troops. Maj. Miller combined military and musical precision to create a band which many say was even better than his civilian band. Considered the father of modern military music, Miller should also be remembered as an American patriot.

Prominent Women Buried at Arlington National Cemetery

Lt. Kara Spears Hultgreen, U.S. Navy - Was the first female pilot killed after the Department of Defense Risk rule was rescinded. Lt. Hultgreen was one of the first U.S. Navy female combat pilots. (60/7710) Commodore (Rear Adm. lower half) Grace Murray Hopper U.S. Navy - Was a mathematician, and a pioneer in data processing and computer science. (59/973) Maj. Marie Therese Rossi, U.S. Army - Was a female helicopter pilot killed the day after the cease fire which ended Operation Desert Storm (the Persian Gulf War). (8/9872) CC-10.5 Constance Bennett - Acted in more than 50 films, including 1937 "Topper," married Brig. Gen. Coulter (last of five husbands) (3/2231) P13. Jane Delano - Second superintendent of Army Nurse Corps 1909-12, active with the Red Cross during World War II (21/6) Margariette Higgins - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, only woman correspondent during Korean War (2/4705) Juanita Hipps - Wrote "I Served on Bataan", best seller in 1943 and basis for movie "So Proudly We Hail," World War II Army Nurse (21/769). Juliet O. Hopkins - "Florence Nightingale of South" during the Civil War (1/12). Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee - First woman Army surgeon in 1898, founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1900 (1/526B). Katherine Marshall - Wrote Together, an autobiography about her life with Gen. George C. Marshall (7/8198) Barbara Rainey - First woman pilot in the Navy, killed while training another pilot in an air accident (6/5813).  

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