The Washington Post, October 24th, 1991
Arlington National Cemetery is undergoing its first expansion since 1976, as work began in mid-August to clear a 13-acre tract to make space for about 9,000 new grave sites. Located near the main gate on the site of the old visitor center's parking lot, the $1.4 million project is expected to be completed by Dec. 1 and will bring the capacity of the cemetery to about 264,000. "We expand land a little ahead of when we need it so the land can be developed and settled after the construction," said John C. Metzler Jr., the cemetery's superintendent. "We're always ahead of what we need," he said. C...
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