The Politics of the Past

The caison platoon is responsible for military full honor funerals inside arlington national cemetery. This morning, the team is preparing to go into arlington cemetery to render final honors to four of our departed service members. There's been a lot of talk of memorial mania. Of suddenly we're fascinated with memorials, and they're popping up all over the place. The past may be fixed, but our memory of it isn't. And you can see that very clearly in turkey because the nation didn't even exist then.