ResearchBuzz: FirehoseTask & Purpose: Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans. “The website for Arlington National Cemetery ‘unpublished’ links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and educational material pertaining to Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as some Medal of Honor recipients.”
NARA: Historical Arlington Cemetery Records Arrive at National Archives. “In December, the National Archives’ Permanent Records Capture Team and staff from the Cartographic Branch began receiving a collection of historical documents from Arlington National Cemetery (ANC). This collection consists of rare maps and architectural drawings from the 1830s to 1970s that were used to assist in […]
Ned WhartonI’m imagining the sapling that once struggled alongside this headstone… #silentsunday #arlingtoncemetery #LifeGoesOn
Aubreader MastoTrump's Arlington Cemetery dispute escalates
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/29/trump-arlington-cemetery-dispute-video
The Trump campaign tells Axios it's "weighing options" on whether to release its footage of an altercation with Arlington National Cemetery officials.
NOTE: The article is almost month old (I'm catching up with my backlog).
mvarioTrump Arlington cemetery incident still under investigation: Sources - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-arlington-cemetery-incident-investigation-sources/story?id=113740204
OUR COMMON GROUND"Trump goes out of his way to degrade everyone around him. The aim is to "break" people as a means of controlling them. . . In fact, even passing away does not guarantee that you will not be treated as a prop, as Trump grinning and performing his trademark thumbs-up gesture in front of an Arlington National Cemetery grave shows."
https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-donald-trump-insults
#DonaldTrump #Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Lucid #arlingtoncemetery
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Kagan MacTane (he/him)Interesting piece that connects the dots between the way Southern Blacks after Reconstruction was scuttled were too afraid to try to vote, and the way the cemetery employee is afraid to press charges against the Trump aide who attacked her.
#ArlingtonCemetery #DomesticTerrorists #MAGA #Trump #KKK #TrumpIsAFascist #USpol #CWUSpol
joe•iuculano 
Via #LindyLi @ 1:55am EDT on Sept 2, 2024
#Trump exploited #ArlingtonCemetery for a photo op
He used an upside-down #Bible as a political prop
He defiled the #WhiteHouse by staging the #RNC there
He desecrated the #OvalOffice by planning his attack against our #Capitol there
The Trump stain MUST be exorcised from #America
TheAuroraSentinelTrump issues statement from Gold Star families defending Arlington Cemetery visit and ripping Harris
‘Vice President Harris has disgracefully twisted this sacred moment into a political ploy’
DrBob, 🧠 MechanicWhy Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious
“For Trump, defiling what is sacred in our civic culture borders on a pastime.
Peacefully transferring power to the next president, treating political adversaries with at least rudimentary grace, honoring those soldiers wounded and disfigured in service of our country—#Trump long ago walked roughshod over all these norms.
Before he tried to overturn a national election, he mocked his opponents in the crudest terms and demeaned dead soldiers as “suckers.”
#arlingtoncemetery
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/trump-arlington-cemetery/679659/
