The flag-draped casket of the Unknown Soldier aboard the USS Olympia upon the ship’s arrival in Washington, D.C., in November 1921. (Library of Congress) The English and French had honored and laid to ...
The English and French had honored and laid to rest their unknown soldiers in 1920 — in Westminster Abbey and at the Arc de Triomphe, respectively. Then, in October 1921, it was the United States’ ...