History
First established on December 7, 1965 as a Veterans Administration Cemetery, it became Houston National Cemetery in 1973 after the passage of the National Cemetery Act. It was the only government cemetery constructed in the United States during the 1960s was the largest of its kind at the time of construction. At 419.2 acres (169.6 ha), the cemetery was slightly smaller than the 450 acres (180 ha) of Arlington National Cemetery.
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“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
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Where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon;
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
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