“Many look to the place as a self-evident case for national inclusion and belonging, as an expression of the many and diverse become one,” Professor McElya said in an interview. That, she said, is the Arlington cited by Khizr Khan, the father of an Army captain killed in Iraq and buried at the cemetery, when he urged Donald J. Trump to visit. “You will see all faiths, genders, and ethnicities.”Now, though, that all-inclusive idea is bumping up against the lack of space. Arlington has tried to stretch what room it has. It ended the old practice of burying family members side by side, and now stacks them two or three deep in a single plot.

Source: New York Times May 28, 2018 06:56 UTC