I don't know why but I have such respect for this monument and the soldiers who choose to dedicate at least 2 years of their life to guarding this place.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill
One of my favorite parts of being an American. You aren't a burger till u see it live
Luke Howard
>guarding an empty box
Oliver Lopez
I'm not the most patriotic person but there definitely is something nice about this. The way they pace and click their heels and bark at anyone who's being a loud ugly lout or trying to cross the rail. Whether you agree with the wars we waged in places the dead always deserve to be honored.
Brayden Lee
>The soldier "walking the mat" does not wear rank insignia, so as not to outrank the Unknowns, whatever their ranks may have been.
Damn.
Pretty cool
Asher Russell
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Julian Scott
"empty" It actually contains the remains of an unidentified American soldier from WW1
Joshua Clark
I visited it once to pay my respects when i was on a lay over in DC Very very interesting stuff. So much respect
David Hill
It is pretty cool. It's a pretty beautiful ceremony.
Blake Williams
We have the tomb of the unknown warrior buried in Westminster Abbey over here.
Basically after WW1 an unidentified soldier got given a massive state funeral, tens of thousands lined the streets and he was buried in the Abbey, significant since this is the place where British monarchs are traditionally laid to rest and the unknown warrior was most likely some poor farm boy.
Most of the war dead from WW1 were either unidentified or their remains couldn't be recovered, dog tags were only issued from 1916 onward and the sheer brutality of the fighting meant that bodies were often in such a state that it was impossible to identify them.
Every parent and child who lost their son/father and never got the chance to bury them, watched that funeral procession knowing it could be their loved one in that coffin.
Christ WW1 was awful, eternally fuck EA not only for making this shit into a game, but for having the nerve to replace white Brits and Germans with blacks and poo in loos
>The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful-- Julius Evola
This is the feel you want, OP.
Benjamin Wilson
Respect. We are ants of men in comparison.
Carter Phillips
Why don't they just open it and see who's inside?
Chase Ortiz
Our national war memorial is better desu.
Owen Richardson
Its hainted you dumbass
Aaron Martinez
My dad is in the forces and stood guard at the Ottawa tomb of unknown soldier for remembrance day. Pretty based guy.
Joshua Stewart
The point of the tomb is that the bodies are unidentifiable ffs
Aiden Barnes
a statue of an emu standing on the bodies of the dead.
Gabriel Cox
I'm sad to say that I would fall for that.
Carter Hall
>bravo
Brayden Garcia
There is a debt here that can never be paid and that is something that should linger in every free man's thoughts when he stands at a voting booth or across from a Shillary fag saying that the primary victims of war have always been women.
It is one thing to be ignorant of the sacrifices of our forefathers, it is an entirely more disgusting thing to cheapen them. If anybody really feels strongly about this, go down to your local VA or retirement/council home and talk to vets. Let them know you remember what they did for us. Most assume we youngfags just don't care or are a bunch of liberal degenerates.
It's pretty much like Sup Forums IRL.
Jonathan Collins
inb4 edgelords memeing about "welfare queens" and "dying for the jew"
inb4 other edgelords laugh at the "pointlessness" of the tomb because they don't understand the importance of ceremony and tradition in the establishment and preservation of social cohesion and progress
Austin Smith
>John Stuart Mill
"Mill comments on three major facets of women's lives that he felt are hindering them: society and gender construction, education, and marriage"
lovely
Jacob Cooper
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Elijah Hernandez
Nice timing
Jonathan Flores
>protecting the body of a person who's identity and accomplishments are unknown His only achievement is that he died, personally I'd rather congratulate the ones that didn't die.
Cameron Garcia
>found the edgelord
Robert Barnes
>tfw still waiting for the lamps to be lit again
Brandon King
>I can't understand a world without hormones so when someone is not a slave to said hormones I call them an edgelord
Joseph King
>>protecting the body of a person who's identity and accomplishments are unknown >being too autistic to realize that's the entire fucking point
Angel Young
it just makes me incredibly sad, it brings me almost to tears thinking about all of the young men who died fighting in this pointless war. We fought our brothers, men just like us who yearned to be free, who sacrificed themselves for their country. And we learned nothing from that struggle, that immense sadness and sense of brotherhood washed away by commercialism and propaganda. I like the tomb of the unknown soldier precily for the reason that no peice of propganda will evoke thought half as deep as being reminded that there have been those who have sacrificed everything including their identity to our countries. Fucking "known only to god" gets me everytime man.
Thomas Garcia
Delete your account.
William Powell
Weaving magical gay ceremonies around an ugly amalgam of violent atavistic impulses, statist authoritarian exercises and just plain gay ass homo stuff.
Who's the edgelord now mf?
mystical death cult paradoxes pervade
Hudson Scott
"Mom, Remember that neighborhood boy, Mitch? I saw him today, or rather, what was left of him. Also, John died the other day. I wish he didn't follow me to the recruiters station, my precious little brother. He was killed by MG fire as we went over the trenches, making an attempt to rush the Germans. Him and most of the platoon were cut down as soon as their upper chest was visible. I'm forever scarred deep inside by the constant sound of gunfire, and the pounding of artillery against the earth rocks me to my very core.
I hope this war ends soon. Love, Your last loving son."
"Mom, Yesterday was Christmas. The whole line fell silent as the Germans got up from the trench, and walked into no man's land, unarmed. We all watched in awe as they trusted us enough, on this day of days, to celebrate something we had in common. We left the trench to meet them, none of us spoke a word of German, and neither them English. Yet we understood each other. We all felt the same emotions, fought for the same reasons. It wasn't until today that I felt sadness in killing them. It felt as if I lost a brother. As nobody in this world outside of these lines will ever understand what happened here.
Merry Christmas, Your loving son
#Trenchfoot"
Mason Richardson
fuck I just really loved the quote didn't realize how much of a cuck he was lmao
John Cox
nobody knows his name and he gave his life for you, you little shits
Noah Barnes
It will soon be replaced with this.
Joshua Hughes
>soldiers who choose to dedicate at least 2 years of their life to guarding this place.
I don't mean to shit on those guys service, but I knew a few DC color guard types and that is prime duty
If you are staioned there, you don't have to deploy like a regular service member. You get to live in an apartment in DC (with that dank DC-area housing pay), and go out, meet girls etc, like some rich Georgetown college kids. Its really a win/win
Aiden Cook
First you'll have to make new lampshades though.
Wyatt Flores
bumping for more vids/music about tombs of the unkown, does Germany have a tomb like this
Logan Wood
>BE MURICAN
>GET DRAFTED TO FIGHT IN A WWI OR WWII >GET KILLED >DOGTAGS GET FUCEKD UP IN RUBBLE, BODY GETS FUCKED UP TOO, NEVER FOUND
>DIED IN A JEWS WAR FOR LITTLE TO NO CAUSE. >MUH HONOR >NOW ENTITLED WELFARE QUEENS IN FANCY UNIFORMS WATCH OVERA CONCRETE TOMB REPRESENTING MY DEATH THROUGH ANY KIND OF WEATHER, LIKE SOME AUTISTS
You think its fucking honor to have human beings die like pawns then be pandered for muh honor in some fucking concrete box?
Are you fucking stupid?
God idiots who worship the military are fucking pathetic, they've done nothing but waste millions of innocent lives.
I don't even know if the last time any american died for actual freedom was in 1812 or Civil War.
They're all kinds of fucked up
Samuel Ross
Why don't people go desecrate these graves? If the place was not guarded i would go dig up their bones and spread them all around the tombs, having sex in the moonlight with the better-preserved corpses and necrophilia
Shitting on the graves would be a great idea too and in general: breaking of the tombstones
One one of my dreams is to some day come to America and destroy these graves
Adam Brooks
My great grandad on my mums side got mustard gas poisoning at Flanders. He initially survived and was sent home but died a a few years later. I remember my gran telling me about that, she only ever did once and it was pretty brutal. Fun fact him and I share a birthday, obviously over a hundred years apart but still bretty cool. I have his king shilling and a copy of his birth certificate and mine hanging up in a room. Lest we forget.
David Sullivan
hitler tried
Isaac White
Boy look at you missing the entire point.
Daniel Flores
>tipping intensifies
Matthew Diaz
missing the point this bad
Eli Walker
oh boi another edgelord
Liam Lopez
No i get the fucking point.
and its just some fucking pandering on about how their poor dignity was never redeem by getting a proper send off
this is fucking pretending as if they fucking care
they send people to their death for bullshit reasons and act like its enough to "honor" them in some stupid fucking way
Another great way to spend American taxpayer money.
In a way, it tells how sad state of affairs there are in America. People literally, homeless, dying on the street, but the Military-Industry complex finds money to hire active 24/7 guards FOR THE DEAD
Sad country, sad people, sick fucks
Aiden Baker
no you fucking moron, its a tribute to those who can never be remembered because we don't know who they are and we never fucking will. These people sacrificed everything including their identity for their country. This isn't about the bullshit reasons you moron.
Parker Thompson
>being such a cancer on society that you can't comprehend the basic concepts of honor and respecting those that died fighting for their nation
tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society
Alexander Williams
This was pre total ZOG control m8. You don't need to worship the military, I don't. But you should have at least some common decency for people who put the pen to paper to do one of the most selfless acts imaginable.
Brayden Young
>calling me an edge lord for hating the military that sends innocent humans who could have lived long lives to their deaths in bullshit wars that the united states didn't need to be involved in.
You idiots think "WE WON BOTH WORLD WARS FOR THEMAHHA "
You're fucking bluepilled if you think we entered either world war for MUH FREEDOm, MUH HONOR.
>hire >military-industrial complex They're volunteer soldiers based in the area that serve about 18 month tours theres usually only like 10 working there at a time
Levi Kelly
no we think nobody won, we lament the sacrifice of great men in a war that did not need to happen. Great men that will never be known because when they died they lost both their identity and their lives.
Dominic Gutierrez
Every soldier who died fighting Hitler made this fucking world cancer, these people are the monuments of ZOG. Traitors to white race and defending the interests of semitic non-aryan people
Americans here are so fucking stupid. They do not care if the soldier in question would have been activelly killing little girls another side of the world, but the fact that he has killed little girls during his military career in palestine, equates himself with Endless honor, bravery
Some of the people buried in these "nameless grave" may have been rapists
They may have raped lots of underage people in the invaded territories and out of shame on their death beds they have removed all identity from themselves (very usual thing in rapist/pedesastry war crimes in the world)
BUT WE MUST RESPECT THEM THEY DIED FORISRAEL
Alexander Reed
>being so fucking stupidly indoctrinated that you defend the fucking cancer that sends humans to their death because they made some stupid concrete box and have welfare queens guarding it
NOTHING , I mean NOTHING, will ever redeem anything they've fucking done to human beings.
I don't give a fuck about some box thats supposed to signify their honor, sentient beings were manipulated and sent to die/
Fuck you bluepilled indoctrinated idiots for defending it.
>no we think nobody won, we lament the sacrifice of great men in a war that did not need to happen. Great men that will never be known because when they died they lost both their identity and their lives.
great men will never be known or experience a great life because of the stupidity of the people who put stupid people in charge
John Gonzalez
This, a thousand times. The small things around the ceremony, like the fact the guards don't wear rank insignia at the US monument and the UK one is buried amongst kings, and the fact that a random casualty was chosen, the whole "known only to God", it's so thoughtful and deep. No Canadian shitposter can ever cheapen that.
Hunter Turner
I would punch you right in your shitty undercut having, converse wearing smug fucking face m8.
Camden Johnson
>What are civilian casualties? >What is the Lusitania? >What is the German U-boat blockade of the British Isles? >What is honoring an alliance? >What is Pearl Harbor? >What is the Bataan Death March? fucking kys if you think we should let ourselves be stepped on, stop pretending you give a shit about innocent lives when all you're doing is trying to be a special snowflake who shits on those who paid the ultimate price
>"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Juan Harris
nothing they ever do will redeem that they sent sentient beings to die for bullshit reasons.
James Gutierrez
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Josiah Stewart
>being this much of an edgelord autistic faggot When the war comes to our soil, and it will, I hope you are one of the first to go.
Jack Torres
>taken from Flanders by a full naval flotilla >given full state funeral >buried amongst kings
why are tombs of unknown soldiers so cool, brehs?
Wyatt Nelson
> defending the people that sent them
> honoring the people who fought and died
are you stupid? no are you actually stupid?
Jacob Baker
>They died for Israel and the jews!1!1!!!! >WW1 k
Elijah Reed
>be american in 1942 >country goes to war >fight for the ideals your nation was founded on >fight to defend you people and your allies from blatant aggressors >die for your county in such a way that no one will ever be able to identify you >would do it all over again if had to
>70 years later >some retard on the internet is mocking the very grave dedicated to soldiers like you because of muh jews
it isn't about why we entered the war you little shit, its about why they fought and what they sacrificed for YOU.
your mere existence ironically proves you right, they died in vain because faggots such as yourself are running around being a general blight on humanity.
Michael Bennett
>what is the cause of those deaths?
It starts with M ends with Y and it hasn't fought in any meaningful wars since the 1800s
actually you probably will since youll gladly give up your precious life for MUH HONOR.
you're acting like some fucking box and welfare queens around them honors any of the people that died and were never found
How about they do something to help all the homeless and mentally ill vets instead? huh?
Wouldn't that be a better way? To protect the ones theyve fucked up in honor of the ones they killed.
Luis Stewart
>>fight for the ideals your nation was founded on >>fight to defend you people and your allies from blatant aggressors >>die for your county in such a way that no one will ever be able to identify you >>would do it all over again if had to
LOL YOU THINK WE WENT TO WW2 FOR MUH IDEALS AND FREEDOM?
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
ARE YOU THAT BLUEPILLED AND INDOCTRINTED????????????????
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. The last time any american soldier died for my freedom was in the 1800s
Evan Allen
> WW1 + 2 vets > welfare queens > implying you can't honour the dead and the living
Why don't you take it up with Obama on why we don't care about our surviving vets you libcuck
pic related
Ryder Cook
There's nothing on the planet than happier than a dead soldier. An insincere and thoughtless type of human, wiped away. Every instance should bring a smile to your face knowing the world is a little bit better.
Nathaniel Sullivan
Ah, you're a didndu then. This makes perfect sense.
Fuck off, Seattle
Ethan Davis
Man shut the fuck up, can you stop memeing for just one second and pay respect to the lost youth that were guided into wars they had no business in for the sake of old wealthy men?
Connor Jackson
> still not able to differentiate between the people who were soldiers and the people who sent them off to war
I'm not sure if you are actually retarded or if you just have an extra chromosome
Juan Howard
And no amount of the shota pornography will ever redeem the fact you're barely a sentient being yourself. You are about as sentient as a amoeba, except you absorb soft drinks and chips as nutrition through the hole located between the upper two fat flaps which form your rudimentary face. Literally kill yourself, preferably in such a horrendous way you become an unknown yourself, because that's the only way you're ever having the slimmest chance someone will mourn by your grave.
Jacob Cox
lol
Luis Morris
Awful way for your great granddad to go m8, RIP he deserved better.
I had a great granduncle killed in the first week of the Somme, aged 19. We know next to nothing about him because my great-granddad, his elder brother who served in the same regiment, never told anyone about him.
Never mentioned the fact that he had a younger brother to his wife, any of his kids, nobody. We only found out by chance when researching the family history.
I just can't imagine the suffering my great-grandfather must've gone through having younger brothers myself, it must have just been far too painful for him to talk about.
What a privilege it is to live during peacetime
Angel Richardson
>ignore my entire argument and insert "duh j00z" because fuck actually debating the topic >pic related it's how jews go to war
James Nguyen
You fuck they didn't die for Isreal Isreal wasn't even a fucking place
Elijah Murphy
Because people would kick the shit out of you duh
Blake Brooks
>he thinks obama is to blame for vets not being taken care off
>in a republican majority House of reps that shut down VA bills to provide more help
>being this fucking stupid
I bet you don't even fucking know about the bill im talking about, guess what republican majority house of reps shut it down
YOu fucking idiots don't even know shit.
im white you idiot
>thinking that once again, making some concrete box, and putting welfare queens around it, somehow honor the deaths of innocents, when the ones in charge did it for bullshit reasons.
Juan Miller
>The last time any american soldier died for my freedom was in the 1800s
You mean the Confederates fighting for their Tenth Amendment rights?
Henry Cooper
READ MY FUCKING POST YOU CHILD
the reasons the war declaration was signed is irrelevant. the soldiers who payed the ultimate sacrifice did so because they wanted to protect this nation and what it stands for
hitler would have gassed you and i wish i had time machine so he could do so.
>but hitler never gassed any jews im sure he would make an exception for you. at least the fucking communists had enough decency honor the dead they forced to march off to die.
Ayden Murphy
nigs would graffiti the shit out of that thing
Joshua Adams
اليابان أنبوب الكلب
Isaac Cook
The tomb is actually an homage to African-American fathers.
Ayden Carter
This is our Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the statue of the pagan goddess Roma with the eternal flame on the right. Guarded 24/7 since 1921. The body of the unknown soldier was chosen from among 11 unknown remains by Maria Bergamas, a woman from Gradisca d'Isonzo whose only child was killed during World War I. Her son's body was never recovered.
Jackson Parker
> hurr durr whats an executive order being this ignorant on how the law works > bernie bro detected go back to plebbit
> thinking once again that ww1 and ww2 vets were welfare queens > le innocents meme > le still not able to differentiate between politicans and soldiers
say it with me stupid dumb liberal scum
Nathaniel Adams
The soldier literally died fighting for your pic. He killed the people that could have prevented this.
Brody Turner
>One one of my dreams is to some day come to America and destroy these graves
try it
Nathan Collins
I remember watching the changing of the guard with my dad when I was 10. Really changed my life. Gave me a solid freedom boner
Easton James
nope when the british got fucking mad in 1812
wait you think this has to do with me having a problem with honoring them? NO
My problem is you idiots think that its somehow honor to have the ones in charge make some box and putting soldiers around it somehow actually honors the ones they send to their death, meanwhile theere are vets rotting on the streets because their precious minds were ruined.
Ryder Bailey
are there any changing of the guard vids?
Hudson Bennett
How is fighting to defend the land you live in a muh honor situation exactly? I'm not talking about going to a foreign country to kill Muslims, im talking about here in America. It's literally for survival lol.