Increased Devotion theepochtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theepochtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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, 1958.
A similar interment ceremony was presided over by President Ronald Reagan on May 28, 1984, for an Unknown Serviceman of the Vietnam Era.