Category:Mother's Day at Arlington National Cemetery

  • 1922 event reported in the Washington Evening Star, May 15, 1922:
    WAR MOTHERS PAY TRIBUTE TO HERO; Hold Impressive Services at Grave of Unknown Soldier at Arlington
    Impressive services were held at the tomb of the unknown soldier in Arlington national cemetery, by the American Legion Auxilliary and the District of Columbia War Mothers, were the outstanding exercises for yesterday—Mother's day. Gathered around the tomb were forty-five war mothers and hundreds of others who had gone to the cemetery for the services. Representative Walter F. Lineberger of California, a wounded veteran of the war, paid tribute to the war mothers in an address ... Mrs. George Gordon Seibold, mother of Lieut. George Vaughn Seibold, who was killed in an air combat in France ... also made an address. ...