help with school project??????!!!!!!!?

Question

I AM DOING A PROJECT FOR THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWNS.
WHY WOULD IT BE AN HONOR TO GO THERE AND LAY DOWN A WREATH? WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO IT? WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO YOU? WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BE SELECTED?

Answer 1

It is very difficult to tell you "feelings" but I will try.

I was in the Army. Not the "go to Vietnam and get shot" part but more the stay in the Army Reserve back before it became the service that would pull you from home to help toward keeping America "powerful".

But the Tomb of the Unknowns is for those whose life was lost and like many others, who held to their life for many more years, faced the end earlier than they should have. There is a certain amount of "unknown" or "unrecognized" in all that served. No conquering heroes, no parades or ribbons or American Legion. Totally unknown and "what a waste", but "what a service" to their country. Honor SHOULD go to them.

The "honor" part is questionable. Being selected to go there and lay down a wreath would either come from being a politician or a member of the honor guard. Of the two the honor guards, who prepare at great discomfort and effort have the more honor.

Why would I do it? At some point you recognize the INNER feeling of realizing that you are not the reason the world is revolving. Whether that be in front of your God or your child. The "unknowns" that rest in that spot are the ones being honored and the emotional "submission" to the inevitable end, although delayed for you, was met by them.

But, I rant. Better to let the honor guard be their witness to the nation that they gave their lives so that we might be free from those who would take away our freedom to worship... take away our freedom to govern ourselves... take away our freedom to...

Answer 2

Because those are the soldiers who died fighting for the U.S. who were never identified. They fought so that this country could remain free and defended freedoms of those too weak to do it for themselves. It is a way of saying thank you to those who gave their all for their country and to apologize for not being able to identify them.