on c-span3. next, the president of the society of the honor guard, tomb of the unknown soldier, talks about the history of arlington national cemetery and the tomb of the unknowns. he describes how confederate general robert e lee s mansion became a burial ground during the civil war and discusses the role and creation of the tomb guard and tells stories about some of the notable people interred at arlington national cemetery. is a little over 90 minutes. [applause] all, thank you for the invitation and thank you, jessica jones were doing the legwork and getting this organized and put together. this is very much we have guys in their 90 s, guys in active duty, and females in our society who have guarded the tomb because the tomb was guarded first in 1995 by corporal heather johnson, the first female to walk them at in 1995. the tomb guard badge depicted on case here,d in this this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. the astronaut
test. test. it was sitting there so long, they played out of that quarry but close but no cigar in terms of the color of the stone. so he was one of the engineers on the washington monument. another little circular thing here, the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone of the washington monument in 1848 was george washington and custis, this guy who helped complete it is on his lawn. that looks like the washington monument. this is the grave of the first person of european descent to be buried on the property and her name is mary randolph. randolphs were very prominent in virginia. her father was thomas mann ran go dolph and a direct descendent of pocahontas, and she wrote a book called the virginia housewife that was the most popular cookbook and housekeeping book of the early the first half of the 19th century. her cuss cousin was the wife of george washington custis and she was buried there. born april
our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. the astronaut badge is in the low 200. today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man who has completed his training and is ready to be considered a badge holder and of the fraternity and sorority, brotherhood or fellowship of tomb guard. we are a 501(c)(3) organization and part of our bylaws is that we do community outreach to educate the public about the tomb. i find that your generation, sort of a sweeping generalization, that your generation knows about the tomb. i talked to school groups and it is appalling how little they know of our history. it is not their fault. we have failed them because we have allowed all of this testing and teaching to the test and not put history on the test. i will get off my soapbox. just think of that. i do speak to a lot of school groups pro bono. this is my 81st speech this year. i will have well over 100 by the time vet
again as we go forward. the painting became as i wrote in my notes it became an engraving. edward savage wrote about that and actually told washington he made 10,000 dollars dollars on it. i think that was almost cheeky of savage to say that he was making money on washington. but this picture and washington ordered four engravings, you can see one of them at mount vernon. i ll love to think about that when i m at met mount vernon. i going to the breakfast room and there is george washington and his family looking down on the table where george washington and his family used to take their breakfast. it s almost like the morton salt girl going down. i do think it s a magnificent thing graving. an extremely important in the history of the country. it was popular because this picture represented what the picture was. we will have more to talk about and that painting in a minute. we have to talk about what washington was up against. his chief desire was to put the capital, the sea
we have a board of directors consisting of judges who sit in three divisions of the eastern district the ox andrea and north which division and we have attorneys to serve on the board as well. by tying the story of the historical society is a story of really some very key people that help society get started in 2006 and i would like to think the specific individuals. the first is u.s. district judge james spencer. he was the chief judge for the same district in 2006 and instrumental in helping our society get it started. there were several judges involved in the project that we will hear about today the society itself but there are a couple that deserve no. u.s. district judge claude hilton who sits in the alexandria division was sentimental and judge henry martin junior who sits in the northern district in u.s. bank bank bankruptcy judge just as the thais who retired in 2013 was a bankruptcy judge in richmond. last but not least on the stage u.s. district judge henry hutso