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The honor they give the unknown soldiers is so beautiful RESPECT THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

Arlington National Cemetery is not in Washington DC! Arlington is actually in Virginia right across the Potomac River from DC.

Well your fact about the Vietnam Unknown is not accurate. There was more than one body, if I recall there were 13 remains from Vietnam at the lab in Hawaii. One of those was chosen after Sec Weinberger modified the requirements for Interment. I have a copy of the memo he signed in my scrapbook....Yeah, those are just rumors you mentioned, bad ones at that. I watched Sentinels get releived for doing stupid things while I was there - but they deserved it.

@mark9531

2 жыл бұрын

Good evening Saxon. You said; "there were 13 remains from Vietnam at the lab in Hawaii." The Vietnam Unknown was a Pentagon boondoggle from the start. They knew who they were burying when the Vietnam Unknown was dedicated in 1984. I am not doubting your memo. But what this narrator KNEW does not make his report inaccurate. Nor does your memo make the number 13 any more accurate. Per Caspar Weinberger in a newspaper article in 1983. [[[More than 10 years after American forces were pulled out of the Southeast Asia war, Army technicians at a special laboratory in Hawaii are still trying to identify *three sets of remains.* ]]] This article appears in print in the New York Times on April 19, 1983, Section A, Page 14 of the National edition with the headline: "AROUND THE NATION."

@saxonwarlord7192

2 жыл бұрын

@@mark9531 Hi Mark, well, it was not an intentional jab at the narrator...but it is certainly not fair that I cite "inside baseball" with someone who wasn't there when all this was going down and then pointing it out without a greater detailed explanation, and with regards to the press - they report what they are fed....that does not mean it's accurate.

@saxonwarlord7192

2 жыл бұрын

@@mark9531 Also, some more trivia related to that event - The stated requirements at that time to have an "Unknown Soldier" for consideration as the "Vietnam Unknown Soldier" was that 75% of the body had to be intact with the head. The problem we had with the 13 remains in the Lab in Hawaii was that none of them met those requirements - hence Sec Weinberger had to modify those requirements so consideration and selection could be made. The "3" that you cited were the 3 that became eligable to be selected out of the 13 after Sec Weinberger modified the requirements. While all that was being discussed I actually got selected to a 6 month tour providing security for Sec Weinberger and Dep Sec Taft in the Pentagon, and was released in time to participate in the Interment of the Unknown Soldier from Vietnam (back in Arlington Cemetery - Mem Day 84) where I remained until I was promoted out of the unit.

@mark9531

2 жыл бұрын

@@saxonwarlord7192 Wow! You had an exciting career. Were you military or an agency security. __________________________ The remains of the Vietnam Unknown buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier consisted of only 6 bone fragments. My big thing is that there never should have been a Vietnam Unknown. Unfortunately, the DoD and the Pentagon bowed to political pressure by Vietnam era veterans to have a Vietnam Unknown. When they discovered they did not have one which fit the requirements, they made one up. When many military officials clearly knew who those bones belonged to. But were pressured to go along. Col. John Web of the graves detail in Hawaii bucked the order to send the remains on to Washington DC for burial at the tomb, declaring the identity was known. He obeyed, but placed items which identified Blassie and his aircraft in the casket.

@mark9531

2 жыл бұрын

@@saxonwarlord7192 "the press - they report what they are fed....that does not mean it's accurate" Absolutely. I could not agree with you more. _______________________ However, there was one Vietnam Veteran Army Sgt Ted Sampley bucked the approved narrative and exposed the Pentagon's subterfuge.