Biden salutes troops as 'spine of America' on Veterans Day

Dedicated to service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice but whose remains have not been identified, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has stood as hallowed ground for 100 years.

The creation of the Tomb began in December 1920, according to Arlington National Cemetery. New York Congressman and World War I veteran Hamilton Fish Jr. proposed legislation to inter one unknown American soldier at a special tomb built in Arlington National Cemetery.

The proposed act mirrored Britain and France's Unknown Warrior and Unknown Soldier, respectively, the cemetery's website says. Both unknowns represented other British and French service members who could not be identified.

The purpose of Fish's legislation was “to bring home the body of an unknown American warrior who in himself represents no section, creed, or race in the late war and who typifies, moreover, the soul of America and the supreme sacrifice of her heroic dead.”

In October 1921, four bodies of unidentified U.S. service members were exhumed from different American military cemeteries in France. On Oct. 24, the Unknown Soldier was selected.

The Unknown Soldier arrived in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 9 and was lain in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Then, on Nov. 11, 1921, the Unknown Soldier was interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

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