WASHINGTON — "We do not know from whence he came, but only that his death marks him with everlasting glory of an American ...

John Monsky details the history of the Unknown Soldier and the origins of Veterans Day. The U.S. takes no territory in WWI, only leases for nine cemeteries for the American dead. Each grave has a ...

The flag-draped casket of the Unknown Soldier aboard the USS Olympia upon the ship’s arrival in Washington, D.C., in November 1921. (Library of Congress) The English and French had honored and laid to ...

Concern over the lack of respect for the gravesite led Army Maj. Gen. Fox Conner to order an armed military guard on March 24, 1926.

The English and French had honored and laid to rest their unknown soldiers in 1920 - in Westminster Abbey and at the Arc de Triomphe, respectively. Then, in October 1921, it was the United States' ...