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Sacred duty, a soldier's tour at Arlington National Cemetery, Tom Cotton

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Sacred duty, a soldier's tour at Arlington National Cemetery, Tom Cotton

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

Main title

Sacred duty

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bibliography

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Tom Cotton

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a soldier's tour at Arlington National Cemetery

Summary

Cotton was a platoon leader with the storied 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment-The Old Guard-between combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the height of the Iraq Surge, he carried the flag-draped remains of his fallen comrades off of airplanes at Dover Air Force Base, and he laid them to rest in Arlington's famed Section 60, "the saddest acre in America." He also performed hundreds of funerals for veterans of the Greatest Generation, as well as the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The Old Guard has embodied the ideals of honor and sacrifice across our nation's history. America's oldest active-duty regiment, dating back to 1784, The Old Guard conducts daily military-honor funerals on the 624 rolling acres of Arlington, where generations of American heroes rest. Its soldiers hold themselves to the standard of perfection in sweltering heat, frigid cold, and driving rain. Every funeral is a no-fail, zero-defect mission, whether honoring a legendary general or a humble private

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