The DOI Reads Book Club

 

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Wednesday, September 2, 2026, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm ET

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The DOI Reads Book Club will again be meeting virtually on Wednesday, September 2nd from 12:30 to 1:30 pm ET to discuss our next Book Club selection, On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery by Robert M. Poole.

As always, all are welcome and you don't need to finish the book to join us. Just bring your questions, insights and thoughts about this book.

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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
      
Author:  Robert M. Poole
Publisher‏: ‎ Walker Books (November 2009)
Paperback: ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 0802715486 
  
Created at the end of the Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery has become a part of the landscape as fixed in the national imagination as the White House or the Capitol building. The mansion at Arlington's heart, and the rolling hills on which it sits, had been the family plantation of Robert E. Lee before he joined the Confederacy; strategic to the defense of Washington, Arlington became a Union encampment, a haven for freedmen, and a pauper's cemetery for soldiers dying in the nation's bloodiest conflict. 
 
With the passage of time, new layers of meaning were added to Arlington, which would become our nation's most honored shrine. More than three hundred thousand rest in Arlington's 624 acres, representing every war the nation ever fought. Each tombstone tells a story, from the Tomb of the Unknowns, so carefully tended today, to the eternal flame at John F. Kennedy's grave to the final resting places of ordinary citizen-warriors sleeping among Arlington's rolling green hills. Their stories, and the cemetery's time-honored rituals -- the horse-drawn caissons, the rifle salutes, the sounding of Taps -- still speak to us all.  

-- From Amazon.com

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