Honoring the Heroes in Arlington National Cemetery

The minister laid the flowers of remembrance to honor the memory of Hungarian generals who died in the American Civil War. Dr. István Simicskó said that “The way we commemorate our heroes always expresses our human values. Honoring and preserving the memory our dead soldiers and heroes is especially important to a nation and its citizens, because that is how we can show an example to younger generations of what we owe to our soldier heroes."

Established after the American Civil War, today the military cemetery on a hill in Arlington, Virginia is the best known military memorial site in the United States of America. Close to 300,000 are buried in the cemetery, including a number of soldiers from the 1861–65 Civil War as well as the Iraq and Afghanistan war dead.

The minister also visited the Iwo Jima memorial (which was erected to commemorate one of the most memorable and famous battles in the Second World War), the Air Force Memorial and the gravesite of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. The gravesite of the former president is one of the most visited memorials in the cemetery. He is buried alongside his wife and their two children in one of the most notable plots of the Arlington National Cemetery.

Almost four million people visit Arlington National Cemetery annually.

Photo: Arlington National Cemetery and Ministry of Defence