Grave of an Unknown Soldier

Originally uploaded by will.duquette.

We all learned about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in grammar school, and I’m sure lots of bloggers will post pictures of it today; I’ve seen one such post already. But the United States has lost many “unknown” soldiers over the years; here is just one of many I saw in the cemetery at Ft. Leavenworth. This man has no guard, no flag, no eternal flame; just a quiet grave amid thousands of his fellow soldiers. I don’t even know which war he died in (though I suspect it was the Spanish-American War at latest, judging from the style of the tombstone). But he should be remembered too.