TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. FOUR BODIES ARE LAID TO REST IN FRONT OF THE LARGE SARCOPHAGUS.

~ WORLD WAR ONE ~
~ WORLD WAR TWO ~
~ KOREAN CONFLICT ~
~ VIETNAM CONFLICT ~

Vietnam Unknown Removed
No Plan To Replace This Soldier

The Cabanatuan American Memorial was erected by the survivors of the Bataan Death March and the prisoner of war camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II.  It is located at the site of the camp and honors those Americans and Filipinos who died during their internment. The American Battle Monuments Commission, recognizing the significance of this memorial, accepted responsibility for its operation and maintenance in 1989.

THIS MEMORIAL HAS BEEN ERECTED BY THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO ITS SONS AND ITS ALLIES
WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS
1942 - 1943

COURTS OF THE MISSING

On the courts are engraved the names of 28,778 American Heroes. Each of them was Missing in action (MIA) or lost or buried at sea in the Pacific during world war two (but not in the southwest Pacific - its missing in action are commemorated by names at the Manila American Cemetery Memorial, Republic of the Philippines)

Memorial To Merchant Seamen

This striking memorial, the first national memorial to merchant seamen in the United States, was commissioned by a group of local seamen to honor merchant marine veterans from all wars. At the height of World War II, there were 215,000 merchant mariners, including many teenage boys too young to enlist in the military, and men classified as 4-F, yet caught up in the patriotic fervor that swept the country after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.