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Preferred term

tomb of the unknown soldier  

Definition(s)

  • World War I saw the introduction of many new ways of memorializing military deaths that occurred in the service of the nation. By the Armistice of 1918, America's war dead, though substantially less than that suffered by other nations, still numbered more than 100,000. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Tomb of the Unknown Soldier]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-HFNGJS5N-6

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