
The Old Guard: Protecting the Tomb of the Unknowns Since 1937
Since the Revolutionary War in 1775, nearly 1.5 million American men and women have given their lives to protect the freedoms and interests of the United States of America. And over those last 231 years, the U.S. Army has learned what it means to truly commemorate those that have fallen in battle, by establishing the Tomb of the Unknowns. In 1921, shortly after World War I, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation to d… Full Article