I never heard of that song before and while I read it, I admit to crying! While living in DC, Arlington was one of my favorite places to visit and remember those that are buried there. I especially loved going during Christmas after Wreaths Across America had laid wreaths along the graves--so beautiful. Your photos are amazing, your blending of the song is beautiful and the scraplift that you've created--you own this layout! Well down, very moving and memorial!
I loved your layout SO much, I nominated it for this week's Baker's Best! You can see your layout and what I wrote about your layout here in this week's thread.
*GingerBread Girl* *GingerScraps Site Creative Team
This is just wonderful, and I agree... what a moving song. Wow. Great mixing of kits, and wonderful page composition. The blending of the background looks terrific.
If you'd like to see the video of Trace Adkins' version of Dave's song, you can see it here. Dave told me the story of how he came to write the song and had me in tears. If you look carefully between 3:23 to 3:33 of the video, the stone and photo behind Trace are those of the man the song was written about, for Patrick Nixon's father.