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"I found Arlington National Cemetery's origin story shocking and almost farcical: it began when someone bought corpses in Robert E. Lee's rose garden out of spite, which turns our hallowed burial ground into a nasty practical joke, and that sense of troubling manipulation continues in revelations about many wrong headstones and the Tomb of the Unknowns controversy, where a Vietnam soldier's remains were placed for a TV-friendly photo op and only later returned to his mother when the deception was exposed." - Matthew Kepnes