Standard Honors Arlington Service
Video Only
$745

Starting from the Administration Building at Arlington National Cemetery.

Arlington Media specializes in covering Arlington services. We use multiple cameras dispersed around the service to capture every aspect of a Standard Honors service.

What We Do - Video

The USB thumb drive and the online video file are in ultra high definition 4K and are a great option for modern computers without an optical drive. They include a ten-minute video of the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns. The ultra high definition 4K digitally mastered DVD or Blu-ray are designed to ensure the best possible viewing experience, complete with an interactive menu and extras, including the ten-minute video of the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

Our acquisition and editing practices meet and exceed the production requirements of broadcast companies such as National Geographic, BBC HD, and Discovery HD. Our video packages include at least four professional broadcast-quality ultra high-definition 4K Sony cameras (not Go-Pros).

What is Included - Video

We can provide you with the following:

  • Five years Online private video link

Video USBs are available at $60 each.

An interactive video DVD or Blu-ray disc are available at $95.00 each

Your video DVD or Blu-ray disc, and USB thumb drive will NOT be copy protected, so you can make your own copies.

Live Web Streaming is an additional $145.00.

Standard Honors

Standard Honors Services are provided for enlisted service members, WO-1 through CW-3, and O-1 through O-3, interred/inurned at Arlington National Cemetery will receive honors provided by the decedent’s branch of service.

Includes:

Military Chaplain

A military chaplain may be scheduled by the cemetery staff, if requested, unless a family minister is desired and provided by the primary next of kin or the funeral home. 

A Casket Team

A casket is carried foot first, except for that of a clergyman which is carried headfirst. U.S. flags over military caskets are placed so that the blue field is at the head and over the shoulder of the deceased to symbolize service to the nation.  The casket is draped before it arrives for services and remains draped until the flag is folded graveside. The cap and sword of the deceased is never displayed atop a flag-draped casket (nothing touches the flag). Caskets are transported to the cemetery in a hearse or caisson.

A Firing Party

The honors leader calls all honors participants to “present arms,” and commands the squad to fire their weapons in unison for a total of three volleys.  Military personnel and veterans solute facing the casket from the first volley to the last.

The tradition of three volleys comes from an old battlefield custom.  The two warring sides would cease hostilities in order to clear their dead from the battle ground. Firing three volleys meant that the dead had been properly cared for and that the side was ready to resume battle.

The Bugler

It is widely considered the most poignant moment of a military funeral. Again instead of facing the music it is appropriate to face the casket.  Military personnel salute from the first note to the last note fades, When the honor leader calls all honor participants to “order arms” and the Chaplin request mourners to be seated for the folding of the flag.

The American history of taps began during the Civil War when Union Army Capt. Robert Ellicombe discovered the body of his son on the battlefield.  The boy had been studying music in the south and without telling his father had enlisted in the Confederate Army.  In his uniform pocket was a series of musical notes composing a haunting melody.  The Union captain buried his Confederate Army son with a lone bugler playing the notes of taps.

Other Coverage Options

Photography
Only

$ 745
  • Includes the following:
  • Five years Online private photo storage

Photography
and Video

$ 1,445
  • Includes the following for photography:
  • Five years Online private photo storage
  • Includes the following for video:
  • Five Years Online private video link
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