Huge armies were deployed and fed into the industrial meat-grinder of modern weapons. Often called the First Industrial War, the Great War used rapid-firing rifles and artillery, machine guns, airplanes, and submarines, which were far more effective than 19th Century weapons. The carnage on the battlefield was incredible. Countries around the globe lost millions of their young men, with still more injured, often crippled. World War I was a catastrophe of previously unimagined proportions. There is justifiably great public reverence surrounding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This included a military formation representing all of the services, a warplane flyover, a public flower ceremony lasting several days up to November 11, and a ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. On November 11, 2021, there was a ceremony to commemorate that event. His remains could not be identified, and the inscription on the tomb, he was “known but to God.” He was intended to represent all of the soldiers who died during the war. One hundred years ago, on November 11, 1921, an American soldier who fell in the Great War, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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