<P> In 2014, volunteers placed over 700,000 memorial wreaths at 1,000 locations in the United States and overseas, including the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, and the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site in New York City . During that year, volunteers were able to place wreaths in all sections of the cemetery for the first time . In 2016, this number increased to 1.2 million wreaths being placed at more than 1,230 cemeteries across the nation . </P> <P> Conflict of interest charges have been made against Wreaths Across America because this charity has an exclusive for - profit supplier, Worcestor Wreath Company, also run by the Morrill family in the same town . The charity's purchases of wreaths from this company account for most of the company's revenue and profits . In late 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported serious conflicts of interest with potential malfeasance in governance and contracting . In 2015 alone the WSJ reported profits of over $1 million on sales of over 850,000 wreaths to the charity raising concerns about competitive bidding, reporting that several competitors had asked to bid significantly below the price offered by Worcestor Wreath Company but were denied access . </P> <P> During May and June 2014, the cemetery celebrated the 150th anniversary of its founding with a month - long series of events, tours, and lectures . During these celebrations, cemetery officials formally re-designated the Old Amphitheater as the James Tanner Amphitheater . James R. Tanner was a Union Army officer who lost both legs during the war . He later became a War Department stenographer, and recorded much of the early evidence in the investigation into the assassination of Abraham Lincoln . He later was active in the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union Army veterans group . Tanner is buried a few yards from the amphitheater . </P> <P> The Cemetery is divided into 70 sections, with some sections in the southeast and western part of the cemetery reserved for future expansion . Section 60, in the southeast part of the cemetery, is the burial ground for military personnel killed in the Global War on Terror since 2001 . Section 21, also known as the Nurses Section, is the area of Arlington National Cemetery where many nurses are buried and is the site of the Spanish - American War Nurses Memorial and the Nurses Memorial . Another section--Chaplains Hill--includes monuments to Jewish, Protestant, and Roman Catholic military chaplains . In 1901, Confederate soldiers buried at the Soldiers' Home and various locations within Arlington were reinterred in a Confederate section that was authorized by Congress in 1900 . On June 4, 1914, the United Daughters of the Confederacy dedicated the Confederate Memorial designed by Moses Ezekiel . Upon his death in 1917, Ezekiel was buried at the base of the monument as he was a veteran of the Confederate army . All Confederate headstones in this section are peaked rather than rounded . More than 3,800 former slaves, called "Contrabands" during the Civil War, are buried in Section 27 . Their headstones are designated with the word "Civilian" or "Citizen". </P>

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