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More than 300,000 people are buried at this Cemetery, including veterans from all the nation's wars, right from the American Revolution through to current day Iraq & Afghanistan. (The pre-Civil War dead were re-interred after 1900.) Also buried here are more than 3,800 former slaves, called "Contrabands" during the Civil War, who are buried in Section 27. Arlington has the 2nd largest number of people buried of any national cemetery in the United States. They conduct approximately 6,400 burials each year, at an average rate of 28/day.[Calverton National Cemetery, on Long Island, is the largest. It conducts more than 7,000 burials each year.] Funerals are normally conducted five days a week, excluding weekends. The flags are flown at half-staff from a half hour before the first funeral until a half hour after the last funeral each day.
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