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Tomb of the Unknowns

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Tomb of the Unknowns
in Arlington National Cemetery; commemorates nameless war dead. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1118]


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Down from the famed Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, near the edge of the cemetery, is a grave marked by a plain white headstone inscribed with the word Ã’unknown.
In the United States, where November 11 is a national holiday called Veterans Day, President Barack Obama was due to attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
On a drizzly, cold day at Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington, Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, a monument to the fallen, placing his hand on his heart as the bugler played.
 
 
 
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