Arlington National Cemetery was the home of the famous General Robert E. Lee.  There are several facts that have been overlooked about General Lee in recent times.  First, he did not fight the war because he was against freeing the slaves.  General Lee and his wife had freed their slaves years before the war.  They were paid, received an education, and taught a trade at the Lee’s expense.  General Lee fought because he believed that the state’s rights superseded the federal government.  Before the war, Abraham Lincoln and General Lee discussed this at great lengths.  Both wished the outcome of their time would have been different.

 

Arlington became the resting place for those soldiers who died in the Civil War to present day.  Over 28 burials are performed daily.  It is a solemn place, yet beautiful. It began as a home.

 

There are no formal cemeteries for those who died for Christ.  Their bodies are scattered throughout the dust of the earth.  But the difference between those veterans of the faith and Arlington:  the lives of the faithful live on in the church and its faithful followers of Jesus.