Good morning from Arlington National Cemetery!

Today at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time we will officially dedicate our #Millennium expansion, unveil two new streets and conduct funerals for two Unknown #CivilWar Union Soldiers.

(@USArmy photos by Mary Smith)
We will be streaming the ceremony #live and will share the feed here on @Twitter and @Facebook.
Following a history of the project and unveiling of two new street signs, we will conduct the first ground burial of two Civil War Soldiers discovered at @ManassasNPS.
The Soldiers will be laid to rest in Section 81 with military funeral honors with funeral escort.

#HonorThem
The 27-acre #Millennium expansion provides 27,282 interment spaces that are located either above or below ground. It helps extend the life of the cemetery for approximately a decade.

At our current rate of interments, the cemetery will be full by the early 2040s.
The street dedications are in honor of @USMC Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan W. Gifford, and Ida Lewis, U.S. Lighthouse Service, which was later absorbed into the @USCG.
Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan W. Gifford is the first U.S. #Marine honored with a street name in the cemetery and Ida Lewis is the first female and first representative of the U.S. #CoastGuard honored with a street name.

The new streets are Lewis Drive and Gifford Drive.

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He wanted to join the @USMC, but he was too short.

The paratroopers wouldn't have him either.

Reluctantly, he settled on the infantry, enlisting to become nothing less than one of the most-decorated heroes of #WorldWarII.

(#USArmy photo)
He was Audie Murphy, the baby-faced Texas farmboy who was born #OnThisDay in 1924. He became a U.S. legend.

Murphy grew up on a sharecropper's farm in Hunt County, Texas.
Left at a very young age to help raise 10 brothers and sisters when his father deserted their mother, Audie was 16 when his mother died. He watched as his siblings were doled out to an orphanage or relatives.

Seeking an escape from that life in 1942, he looked to the #Marines.
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