MICHAEL COMPTON, ORLANDO, FLORIDA: I'm Michael Compton from Orlando, Florida. I'd like to know the history behind the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.</s>THOMAS SHERLOCK, SR. HISTORIAN, ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY: The first unknown to be buried here at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was the unknown from the first World War. And he was buried here or Armistice Day, November the 11 of 1921, when we followed suit of our European allies by burying one soldier that's representative of all those that died during that war. He was joined by unknowns from World War II and the Korean conflict on May 30, Memorial Day of 1958. And the last unknown to be interred here was the unknown from the Vietnam War, who was buried here on May 28 of 1984. He has subsequently been identified in 1998 and, in accordance with his family's wishes, is buried near Saint Louis, Missouri.
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