* Guards have kept visitors away from the memorial at Arlington National Cemetery since 1925.

* The Tomb has been blocked off to the public and guarded by a solider 24 hours a day since 1925.



In honor of its centennial celebration, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier will be open for the public to pay their respects and lay flowers on the plaza for the first time in nearly 100 years.

For two days this month, November 9 and 10, they will be allowed to get close and place flowers at the Tomb.

The Tomb's plaza at the Arlington National Cemetery opened on Tuesday and will remain open on Wednesday in honor of its centennial commemoration.

Members of the public will be allowed to pay their respects and lay a flower at the Tomb between 9am and 4pm during the two-day ceremony.

Visitors to the sacred memorial site, who were required to register online, will be required to provide a government-issued ID for entry.




https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10183483/Tomb-Unknown-Soldier-opens-public-centennial-celebration.html?ito=social-facebook

An unidentified coffin was sealed in the white marble tomb on November 11, 1921 to honor all U.S. service members whose remains have not been identified and has remained an a important national monument ever since.

Members of the public pay their respects by placing flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

Wow!

People pay their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near it's 100 year anniversary at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

Members of the Crow Nation line up to place flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to100 years of the monument honor

U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, and his family, wait to place flowers during a centennial commemoration event at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Cotton, an Army combat veteran, and his family stand after placing flowers during a centennial commemoration event at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

A group of US Navy sailors hold flowers to be placed during a centennial commemoration event at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

People line up in the National Cemetery in Arlington to place flowers during a centennial commemoration event at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Ok

January, 2021.


Joe Biden and Kamala Harris laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with (from left) Michelle and Barack Obama, Laura and George W. Bush and Hillary and Bill Clinton.

Vice President Kamala Harris (center) and President Joe Biden (right) salute the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlinton National Cemetery.

A tomb guard of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment, known as 'The Old Guard,' walks before a centennial commemoration event at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Tomb has been guarded by a solider 24 hours a day since 1925.

Images showing a solider placing a small American flag at the tomb of the Unknown Solider during a severe storm at Arlington National Cemetery(2019).

The Tomb of the Unknowns remained guarded during the blizzard that swept across much of the East Coast.(Winter StormJonas2016)

Lovely. These are the kinds of actions from government that will make a soldier give his last drop of blood to defend the country.

Nice

Here we have Biafra Unknown gunmen

I always wondered if it was a random monument or had a real body inside. With DNA advancements, that soldier will remain unknown because he (most likely — not a she since women are till today not employed in active combat) died before genetic databases became a thing. His organic remains can get dug up and cloned yet all that'll do is give a modern name to a relic from the past.

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airminem:
Here we have Biafra Unknown gunmen

Sometimes, person suppose put stupidity inside pocket, abi?

chariisGRACE:


Sometimes, person suppose put stupidity inside pocket, abi?

Okay Biafra jihadist unknown gunmen?!

But in inside rain and stormy weather
Nigeria Army sef!

Since 1925?

Nigeria needs to learn the importance of the preservation of history. They should stop acting like Hannibal the brute, abandoning important cultural monuments and laying them to waste

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suffering:
I always wondered if it was a random monument or had a real body inside. With DNA advancements, that soldier will remain unknown because he (most likely — not a she since women are till today not employed in active combat) died before genetic databases became a thing. His organic remains can get dug up and cloned yet all that'll do is give a modern name to a relic from the past.

There are several unknowns from all the major wars the US have participated in the 20th century, but the inaugural Unknown was chosen from a group of bodies buried in France in WW1.

They will not make efforts to identify the remains because the remains itself is supposed to represent "no section, creed, or race in the war". Essentially the bodies are standing in for all armed forces personnel who died during warfare and could not be identified because of several factors. DNA tracing of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died before DNA technology is too time and money consuming, so the monument is in honour of them.

https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Tomb-of-the-Unknown-Soldier

This brought tears to my eyes.

Ishilove:
Since 1925?

Nigeria needs to learn the importance of the preservation of history. They should stop acting like Hannibal the brute, abandoning important cultural monuments and laying them to waste

The Nigeria Armed Forces are a disgrace both in deeds and in action. Their loyalty is to whoever is president and not the country, which makes it quite difficult for most Nigerians to believe we have an Armed Forces that is worth celebrating.

The monument is significant in the sense that the 'Unknown soldier' isn't actually one but several American soldiers that died during the World War I, World War II, and the Korean War in defense of their country's integrity, honour, and peace.

Our own are either inviting bandits to raid their base, violate and dehumanise the people they are sworn to protect and serve and to sell military weapons to terrorists while their Chiefs are buying luxury properties in Dubai and making billions of Dollars meant for weapons disappear.

Sanchez01:

The Nigeria Armed Forces are a disgrace both in deeds and in action. Their loyalty is to whoever is president and not the country, which makes it quite difficult for most Nigerians to believe we have an Armed Forces that is worth celebrating.

The monument is significant in the sense that the 'Unknown soldier' isn't actually one but several American soldiers that died during the World War I, World War II, and the Korean War in defense of their country's integrity, honour, and peace.

Our own are either inviting bandits to raid their base, violate and dehumanise the people they are sworn to protect and serve and to sell military weapons to terrorists while their Chiefs are buying luxury properties in Dubai and making billions of Dollars meant for weapons disappear.

That's why I said we need to stop acting like Hannibal, like animals loyal only to our own basic needs. Brutes at the bottom of the evolutionary ladder

Explorers:
A tomb guard of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment, known as 'The Old Guard,' walks before a centennial commemoration event at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Tomb has been guarded by a solider 24 hours a day since 1925.

You just dey talk tomb of u known soldier. You know even talk how it came about or what brought about it.

CaptainZubi:

You just dey talk tomb of u known soldier. You know even talk how it came about or what brought about it.

The tomb is a symbol of sort. It represents American soldiers who died in the Wars 1&2 and the Korean war. There was a claim at some point that the actual 'unknown soldier' fell during the World War I and his body was transported to Washington from France. It was not exactly known what he did and why he was hallowed that much but DNA testing would later reveal him to be Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie. The World War I unknown was later joined by the unidentified remains of soldiers from America’s other major 20th century wars and the tomb was put under permanent guard by special military sentinels.

Much later, the remains of Air Force Lieutenant Michael Blassie was returned to his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, and was buried with military honours, including an F-15 jet “missing man” flyover and a lone bugler sounding taps.

While the use 'Unknown Soldier', on the tomb, it actually refers to several others who were drafted into the military and later fell and remained unidentified, even in death.

very emotional

Country and its system

Nah country be this ooo

This is how you plant the seed of true patriotism and love for one's country in the hearts of her citizens.But here our COAS died in the line of duty and was buried at a cemetery few KMs away from the presidential villa but neither the president nor his vice attended, meanwhile see people guarding a monument for their unknown dead soldiers 24/7.