On the grounds of the Custis-Lee Mansion circa 1864, the former home of American’s greatest general, is where Arlington National Cemetery now stands. When Union soldiers occupied the land belonging to the wife of General Robert E. Lee, in an act of retribution, they began burying their war dead there picture from 1865. Today, the cemetery is almost full of American patriots who risked their lives for their fellow man. Arlington House The Custis-Lee Mansion sits high above the Virginia side of the Potomac River, across from the imposing memorial to the Commander-in-Chief of the army that won against Lee’s army, President Abraham Lincoln.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Clinger, United States Army, like General Lee, fought for his country in a war that was lost; in Colonel Clinger’s case it was Vietnam. Clinger’s memorial stone is in Section 8 of the former Custis-Lee plantation. Inscribed on his gravestone are the dates of his earthly sojourn: “June 6, 1944 - April 11, 1993“; and the words “It is better to have lived one day as a lion than one thousand days as a sheep“.
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