LIN: Every week we like to bring you some of the more personal stories from the frontlines, and what could be more personal than a funeral for a loved one. Today's service for three Marines in Ohio is a stark reminder of the cost of war. For some who don't make it back from Iraq, their final resting place is Arlington National Cemetery. And now, for the first time, an Iraqi is buried there. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr reports.</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On this day, an American general and an Iraqi general have come together to bury the remains of four U.S airmen and an Iraqi pilot killed in an air crash north of Baghdad in May: Major William Downs, Captain Jeremy Fresques, Captain Derek Argel, and Staff Sergeant. Casey Crate. Captain Ali Abass is the first Iraqi National to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He and the U.S. team were scouting potential landing locations when they crashed. Colonel Kenneth Rodriquez knew three of the airmen.</s>COL. KENNETH RODRIGUEZ, U.S. AIR FORCE SPECIAL OPS.: I was thinking two things. First of all, I was thinking about the loss of these great warriors, and -- because the three guys that belonged to me, I knew very well. And then, the other thing I was thinking about is looking at the family sitting there in the front row and how much they've sacrificed. It's sobering.</s>STARR: All the families have had separate services, but some of the remains from the crash could not be identified even using DNA, so the Air Force insisted that they be buried at Arlington in a single casket. Iraqi General Kamal Abdul Sadr (ph), the commander of the Iraqi Air Force handed Iraq's flag to the family of Captain Abbas. More than 60 foreign nationals have been interred at Arlington. Now, an Iraqi Air Force captain joins 184 Americans buried here, having died in the war on terror. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.
Iraqi National To Be Buried at Arlington National Cemetery