HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD

Sentinel guards keep vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, protecting and honoring fellow soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice. To stand guard there—with absolute precision, in every type of weather, at every moment of the day, uninterrupted since midnight July 2, 1937—is the ultimate privilege and the most difficult post to earn in the army. Everything these men and women do is in service to the Unknowns. Their standard is perfection.

How the Unknowns came to be entombed at Arlington and how their fellow soldiers have come to keep vigil over them is a sobering and powerful tale, compellingly told by Jeff Gottesfeld and luminously illustrated by Matt Tavares in this volume that honors the soldiers who honor the fallen. From the dust jacket