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lem0nademouth · 8 days ago

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if you ever wonder whether humans actually love and care about each other just remember that the guards at the tomb of the unknown soldier in arlington wear special fatigues with no insignia so they do not outrank the unknowns interred or commemorated there

#the tomb of the unknown soldier is like a tangible representation of people caring about strangers #but this detail really makes me hopeful #like for it to be so important that we respect and honor the memories of those who have no one to remember them makes me cry #for context:#the tomb of the unknown soldier is both a literal tomb and a monument to fallen soldiers whose remains could not be identified #a lot of countries have one and the US has multiple #the one in arlington cemetary is the main US one #its the final resting place of three US soldiers #one from WWI one from WWII and one from the korean war #the other ones are monuments to unknowns from older wars #mostly the civil war #because so many people died and IDing bodies was much harder back then

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