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John Avlon: Arlington National Cemetery is a place that hushes the mind. If you can’t bum-rush voting booths, you shouldn’t be able to use it as a campaign prop

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Bob Greene : JFK is one of only two presidents buried at Arlington .

He says JFK 's brother is buried there like a Franciscan beneath a simple white wooden cross.

Greene: Electioneering is forbidden within a certain distance of a polling place in every state in the U.S. He says the former president

of the United States profaned this place the way he did this past week .

General Montgomery Meigs was the Army ’s quartermaster during the Civil War .

He was tasked with building a new national cemetery on the grounds of Robert E. Lee .

Meigs ’ son, Lt. John Rodgers Meigs , was killed by Confederate scouts in 1864 .

He put out a bounty of $ 1,000 on the head of a man he thought had killed his son.

VR Score

62

Informative language

65

Neutral language

29

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

49

Offensive language

possibly offensive

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not hateful

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detected

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detected

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short-lived

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