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All three networks filed appropriately solemn features to honor the nation's military dead. CBS' Chip Reid covered the dispute between preservationists and maintenance efforts at Arlington Cemetery. The 48 ton block of marble covering the Tomb of the Unknowns has a large and growing crack: should the slab be replaced or allowed to fall apart? ABC's Bob Woodruff profiled the Fallen Hero Project: artist Michael Reagan and his assistant Joe Colgan have undertaken to draw the likeness of each of the military dead from Iraq and Afghanistan and send the picture to their bereaved kin. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski brought us the 195 Arlington Ladies, a group of military wives and widows officially designated to attend each funeral at the cemetery, complete with a handwritten letter of condolence. "In the end all the pomp and ceremony of formal military honors quickly give way to the crush of personal grief. It is at that very moment the kindness and compassion extended by a total stranger is what may be needed most."
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