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Sound bites and B-roll from the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the reopened Ord and Weitzel Gate at Arlington National Cemetery.
0:00 - 0:23: Col. Thomas Austin / Director of Engineering
"Just yesterday I was giving a briefing on our Southern Expansion Project, and I discussed how we were building history, a project that will last as long as there is a United States of America. Now, here at Ord and Weitzel, we have the honor of rebuilding history, reviving a structure with elements that go back nearly 200 years. What an honor it is and how lucky we all are to be a part of it."
0:23 - 0:40: Karen Durham-Aguilera / Executive Director
"The renewed gate, accompanied with improvements to Custis Walk and the addition of a new guard house offers a grand pedestrian entrance to the cemetery as well as enhanced security for our visitors and our work force. What is old here at Arlington is once again made new."
This is the result of a complex, multi-year restoration process. The historical gate was designed and built in 1879 under the leadership of Maj. Gen. Montgomery Meigs. Two columns from the War Department Building in Washington, D.C., which was built in 1820 and demolished in 1879, were used to build the gate. The original gate featured elaborate ironwork and connected to the north boundary wall of the cemetery. The gate was disassembled in 1979 and stored on the cemetery grounds due to the cemetery's expansion and advent of modern vehicles, many of which were wider than the gate's original clearance.
The complex restoration process involved salvaging and repairing the gate's columns along with its decorative urns. The newly restored gate will offer pedestrian entrance to the cemetery from its north side.
| Date Taken: | 11.08.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 11.08.2022 14:14 |
| Category: | B-Roll |
| Video ID: | 863603 |
| VIRIN: | 221108-A-YX869-554 |
| Filename: | DOD_109312786 |
| Length: | 00:01:52 |
| Location: | ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, US |
| Downloads: | 4 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 4 |
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