Arlington Southwest is a cemetery dedicated to the soldiers from Texas lost in what Operation?
Arlington Southwest Arlington Southwest is an unoccupied cemetery located in Brewster County, Texas, 4 mi east of Alpine along U.S. Highway 90. Each gravestone serves as a memorial for each individual soldier from Texas killed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq of the early 21st century. Developed by the Big Bend Veterans for Peace, Arlington Southwest is believed to be the first permanent memorial dedicated to those fallen in the war similar to those established as the temporary Arlington West memorials in California in 2003.
Ray Cromley Raymond "Ray" Cromley (August 23, 1910 – February 23, 2007) was a Colonel in the United States Army and a Journalist. Prior to the Second World War, Cromley was a correspondent and journalist in Japan. Following its outbreak, Cromley joined the American army and served in the China Burma India Theater. He was a member of the United States Army Observation Group to Yenan, better known as the Dixie Mission. After the war, he went on to become a writer for "The Wall Street Journal". He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.