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Not unknown

Monday, March 30, 2015

Tomb_of_the_Unknowns Of the many memorials in Washington, DC, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is especially notable. Commemorating those soldiers whose fates we do not know, whose sacrifices are hidden from the sight of men, but not to God.

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