Marshall Drive Transfer at Arlington National Cemetery during a Full Honors Funeral Service earlier this week, surrounded by blooming cherry blossom trees and magnolias. Full honors funerals begin at a designated place, called a transfer point. A team of soldiers transfers the casket to the caisson at the transfer point, before proceeding to the gravesite and the heroes final resting place. Following the transfer, a military band plays a reverent march, leading six horses as they pull a flag-draped casket through tree-lined lanes of Arlington National Cemetery.

[igp-video src=”” poster=”https://www.arlington.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/marshall-drive-transfer-at-arlington-national-cemetery-during-a-full-honors-funeral-service-earlier-1-1.jpg” size=”large”]Marshall Drive Transfer at Arlington National Cemetery during a Full Honors Funeral Service earlier this week, surrounded by blooming cherry blossom trees and magnolias.

Full honors funerals begin at a designated place, called a transfer point. A team of soldiers transfers the casket to the caisson at the transfer point, before proceeding to the gravesite and the heroes final resting place.

Following the transfer, a military band plays a reverent march, leading six horses as they pull a flag-draped casket through tree-lined lanes of Arlington National Cemetery.