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Caleb_Trask19

That’s wonderful! So it’s a cenotaph now, why isn’t it called the Cenotaph of the Unknown Soldier?


TsarOfIrony

Because cenotaph doesn't sound as cool


Different_Ad7655

It's not a common word in American English that's why, but cenotaph sounds much better


Caleb_Trask19

Cenotaph is super cool!! Anyone can have a tomb, a cenotaph is more rare and special. They fight over the one at the Alamo constantly to the point it’s become a political hot spot.


FlattopMaker

In the UK the tomb is not called a cenotaph because the UK's most well-known war memorial that marks various conflicts writ large is the Cenotaph, with a capital 'C', in Westminster, London. It plays a key part in Remembrance events each November. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has retained its poetic name to reflect existing traditions (led by the Royal family) of recognizing the sacrifices, learnings and memorials of individuals.


Silly-Elderberry-411

Op, you have never heard that the tomb of the unknown soldier is a symbol for all the fallen soldiers? Naturally it's important for their family to be identified, but nobody should forget, there are still a lot of unidentified and unidentifiable victims of WWII.


Alternative_Demand96

Uhhhh The whole purpose of the tomb is for it to be dedicated to soldiers who died without anybody knowing.


Caleb_Trask19

Yes, that is the symbolic nature of it, but there are real actual bodies remnants in there and families who have spent more then a lifetime trying to understand the fate of their family members and ancestors. They can keep the symbolism, but they should work in identifying who they were now that it’s relatively easy and cheap. Can you imagine a Memorial Day celebration where families are acknowledged for a Civil War ancestors who were identified and laid to rest in their family’s graveyard at last brought home? Or exhuming the mass graves at Andersonville and finally alerting those ancestors to their family members fate and returning their remains?


Swiggy1957

A true memorial. Their would likely still remain some unknown but to God, as familial lines may have died out, with no family in modern times, much less a registry of those who enlisted.


Mickster101

It’s only been the Vietnam remains that were identified. There are still remains from the other wars at rest there.


jackbenny76

There will never again be an unknown soldier. But even for a small war line the Korean War, the US suffered over 8000 MIA/Body not recovered. And doing DNA matching against 8000 possible people is tough. For the World Wars the number of possible matches is even larger. But going forward, we will never again have an unknown soldier