I don’t normally post photos of the military taken between services. But these were taken on one of the first services I did with Scott. The angle was just right to catch the horses, and the planes landing at National Airport. One airline even used one of these photos in a Memorial Day tweet a few years ago.
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A detailed image of the comparison horse’s stirrups at a funeral in Arlington National Cemetery. According to Army tradition, a ceremonial horse is led by a “cap walker,” in a procession with boots set backward in the saddle’s stirrups. In addition to high-ranking government officials such as the president, the cap horse honor is reserved for officers of the rank of colonel or above. The tradition dates “to Roman times, or Genghis Khan,” as a high honor bestowed on high-ranking fallen warriors.” Today “the boots facing backward symbolize [that] the fallen won’t ride again and [the rider is] looking back on his family one last time,”.
Captured by the @arlingtonmedia team on location, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is Arlington National Cemetery’s most iconic memorial. The neoclassical, white marble sarcophagus stands atop a hill overlooking Washington, D.C. Since 1921, it has provided a final resting place for one of America’s unidentified World War I service members, and Unknowns from later wars were added in 1958 and 1984. The Tomb has also served as a place of mourning and a site for reflection on military service – ANC.
