Caisson Detachment Revitalizes Tradition at Arlington National Cemetery

For more than seven decades, the Caisson Platoon of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as "The Old Guard," has provided horse-drawn caisson funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. — a tradition formalized in 1948 and rooted in 19th-century

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