Wrapped in the brooding silences of eternity in the nation's Valhalla, where the white marble temple to its war gods on the wooded hills of Arlington stands guard above the Capitol, the well-loved son of the republic sleeps at last shrouded in his immortality.Ī hundred millions of people have called him “son,” and given to him a name that for all time to come in every heart shall be a synonym for sacrifice and loyalty. There may never be another unknown soldier.Īn excerpt from The Post of November 12, 1921: Because of the development of DNA technology, the unknown soldier from the Vietnam War was recently exhumed and identified. The tomb bears the inscription “Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.” Congress later directed that an “Unknown American” from subsequent wars - World War II, Korea and Vietnam - be similarly honored. Capitol to lie in state, and on Armistice Day 1921 they were ceremoniously buried in Arlington National Cemetery. To honor them, the remains of one were brought to the U.S.
The bodies of many soldiers killed in World War I could not be identified. Excerpts from “the first rough draft of history” as reported in The Washington Post on this date in the 20th century.
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