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On Oct. 24, 1921, U.S. Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger, who was wounded in combat, highly decorated for valor and received the Distinguished Service Medal in “The Great War, the war to end all wars,” selected the Unknown Soldier of World War I from four identical caskets at the city hall in Chalons-sur-Marne, France. The four unknowns had been exhumed from four World War I American cemeteries in France. The chosen unknown soldier was transported to the United States aboard the USS Olympia, then laid in state in the Capitol Rotunda until being interred on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1921. President Warren G. Harding (in photo) officiated at the interment ceremonies at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery.
(Arlington National Cemetary/ Photo: US Army Military Institute
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