tomb of the unknown soldier
Unidentified fallen honored
A tomb of the unknown soldier is a monument honoring unidentified military personnel killed in war.
The remains interred represent all who died without identification—a symbolic stand-in for every missing soldier.
Most nations with significant military history maintain such a memorial, often at a national cemetery or prominent civic site, where it serves as a focus for remembrance ceremonies.
They laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- ArlingtonVirginia burial ground
- national cemeteryPublic burial site for servicemembers
- graveSerious and worrying
- sacred groundLand deemed spiritually inviolable
eternal flame · honor guard · changing of the guard · sacrifice · wreath · military · ceremony · laying wreaths · marble · silence · fallen · fallen heroes · tribute · patriot · reverence · sentinel · rifle · salute
- Military HolidaysMemorial Day, Veterans Day, fallen heroes, remembrance, veteran
- war memorialswar memorial, war monuments, war memorials, military cemeteries, veterans memorials
- honor guardshonor guard, honor guards, color guard, colour guard, tomb guard
tomb of the unknown soldierpresidential memorial
Structure honoring former leaders
Lincoln Memorial · Washington Monument · Hall of Fame · Taj Mahal · Mount Rushmore
tomb of the unknown soldierunmarked grave
Burial site without identification
potter's field · mass grave · Boot Hill · missing in action · lost at sea
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