Workers then moved quickly to construct the Tomb, placing the cap on New Year’s Eve ... of the Society of the Honor Guard, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the platoon’s alumni organization.

Five years later, the first soldiers were assigned to guard the Tomb of the Unknown Solider at the cemetery to discourage visitors from climbing or stepping on it. In 1937, the guarding became a ...

Four members of the Student Veterans Association at the University of Alabama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown ...

Four University of Alabama student veterans laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National ... two years as a member of the Old Guard at Arlington, said the wreath-laying ...