Out of President's Sight, Arlington's Rows of Grief Expand [View All]

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Niedermeier, one of more than 1,700 American men and women who have died in Iraq, is the 144th to be laid to rest at Arlington. Arlington, just two miles from the White House, buries the Iraq dead at a rate of one or two a week.

But the nation's leaders are missing these somber and patriotic pageants. Members of Congress rarely attend. Top Pentagon officials do so only occasionally. And President Bush has yet to bury a fallen warrior.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061701443.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

hard to believe this article is by Dana Milbank