HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD
Either Discovery or the History Channel did a great documentary on the special men who volunteer for this duty. It’s a very compelling picture of the total dedication, and extreme training these young men endure just to get this duty.
It’s difficult to find such honor in most places.
At my last visit in March of 2001, there was a group of young people there and their supervision was lacking. They were starting to run all about and talk and just be silly children. After several people had tried to shush them, suddenly, the young man who was currently walking back and forth - STOPPED DEAD IN HIS TRACKS! He turned sharply and faced the crowd and pretty basically told them to stop talking and moving around, and to have respect for the soldiers who were being honored there. WHOA! The children sat down and immediately shut up.
It showed me that the children had not been instructed by their teachers as to how to act while at the memorial.