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Section 60

Section 60 is the area where our soldiers who have died most recently (unfortunately) are buried. These soldiers are young and older, but none are old.

I watched a documentary called Section 60, and it was possibly the most depressing thing I have ever watched. It was on HBO, and once I figured out what was going on, I kept thinking I should change the chanel, but I couldn't. Everything was real. The documentary kept cutting back to cemetary workers digging grave after grave, then to mourning parents, widows/widowers, children, etc.

As much as I like the attractions in D.C., after watching the documentary I don't think I can ever see that as a place where I can go as a tourist attraction. Not when I've seen a father sleeping next to his son's grave, a wife crying over her fallen husband, a husband crying over his fallen wife, a man drinking beer with his 20 year old brother-in-law, and children who only know their father as a tombstone, and nothing more. Arlington is not just a place where soldiers are laid to rest who died a 100 years ago. It is a current reality, and a depressing reality.

People who have lost a loved one, do very interesting things. Things that may seem irrational to an outsider, but the ones who have lost, have formed a community. In their community they understand the pain of their loss.

I don't think I can do the documentary justice in words. I feel as though, one does not have to support the war to support the soldiers. And this documentary proves it.