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PM lays wreath at Arlington National Cemetery

By AAP Newswire

Oct 24, 2023

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery in the United States.

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Mr Albanese laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which acknowledges the sacrifice US citizens have made for their country, at the cemetery in the US state of Virginia.

"The friendship between Australia and the United States runs deep," Mr Albanese said on social media platform X after his visit to the final resting place of more than 400,000 US service members and their families as well as foreign citizens.

"Generations of our service men and women have fought together for peace," he said.

"And together, we honour those brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country."

Mr Albanese also paid his respects to two Australians at the cemetery.

They were RAAF officer Francis D. Milne who died on an air mission while serving with a US aircrew in Papua New Guinea on November 26, 1942 and Yvonne Kennedy who died on September 11, 2001 when American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon.

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