For Memorial Day: Arlington National Cemetery’s NLM Connections | NLM in Focus

For Memorial Day: Arlington National Cemetery’s NLM Connections | NLM in Focus

For Memorial Day: Arlington National Cemetery’s NLM Connections

05/23/2018 08:30 AM EDT

As I gently placed a wreath on the grave of a soldier who fought in World War I, as part of an annual laying of wreaths ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery last December, I thought about the many American heroes who rest there. Several were leaders of the National Library of Medicine and its antecedents,…