This year, the Daughters of the American Revolution has invited all Chapters, including the Major James Kerr Chapter, to participate in a nationwide Centennial Celebration of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In 1920, France and Great Britain buried Unknown soldiers from the fallen of WWI. The United States did not do the same, and there was pushback from the American public. In the following year, Congressman Hamilton Fisch drafted the legislation to get the Tomb of the Unknown authorized and it was signed by President Woodrow Wilson. The first body buried in the tomb was an unidentified soldier from World War ...