Even going as a child, Arlington National Cemetary is one of those places that stuck with me after I went. Quite a somber place. It brings home the reality of war and the lives lost. To me, it was a physical example of why going to war should be the very last option and only be done it the most desperate of situations. The fact that presidents could be so close and yet seemingly not reach the same conclusion is mind-boggling.

On a slightly side note, the holocaust memorial in Berlin is one of the only other places where I've felt the eerieness of Arlington National Cemetary.