Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery (Pixabay)
(FOX NEWS) – The United States Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery — following a reverential selection process that spanned the Atlantic Ocean — on this day in history, Nov. 11, 1921.
The remains of the American hero buried beneath the tomb was chosen from thousands of unidentified doughboys killed in World War I and buried in France. "Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier, Known but to God," reads the inscription on the marble tomb.
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Crypts for Unknown Soldiers from World War II and Korea were added in 1958.
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