CSPAN3 American Artifacts February 8, 2016
[drums] you are looking at a funeral procession at Arlington National cemetery held in march 8, 2013. The full military honors ceremony is for two civil war sailors that went down the uss monitor ironclad and in 1862 storm up the coast of cape hatteras, north carolina. The remains of the sailors were recovered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the u. S. Navy in 2002. In this american artifacts, we will observe the ceremony and learn the history of the monitor and the efforts to identify the remains of the recovered sailors. We spoke after the burial with david alberg, ...