Historically Yours: Unknown soldier identified years later
Elizabeth Davis Special to Boonville Daily News On March 4, 1921, Congress approved the burial of an unidentified World War I veteran in the plaza of the new Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery. That burial took place on Nov. 11, 1921. It was another five years before Congress authorized the completion of the Tomb which is inscribed on the west panel: HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill on Aug. 3, 1956, to pay tribute to the Unknowns of World War II and the Korean War. Those burials took place on May 30...
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