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Jeff Gottesfeld, Matt Tavares (illustrator) 4.57. 895 ratings193 reviews. With every step, the Tomb Guards pay homage to America’s fallen. Discover their story, and that of the unknown soldiers they honor, through resonant words and illustrations. Keeping vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Arlington National Cemetery, are the ...
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Mar 16, 2021 · Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Kindle edition by Gottesfeld, Jeff, Tavares, Matt. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Gottesfield’s poetic text is in the voice of the first Unknown Soldier, borne by a horse-drawn wagon to Arlington in 1921 and, after a twenty-one-gun salute, laid to rest on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, at the eleventh hour (the time the WWI armistice was signed in 1918)…Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the ...
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An unidentified soldier from the First World War was interred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on November 11, 1921, the day known now as Veterans Day.The Tomb now also holds Unknowns from World War II and the Korean War. The Tomb has been guarded around the clock by the Tomb Guards since midnight on July 2, 1937. Becoming a Tomb Guard ...
Feb 12, 2021 · Gottesfeld’s text, spare and shining, gently gives the backstory. But it is the unexpected footsteps—21 to be exact—of the soldier who stands guard and 21 seconds of silence that resound loudly and purely. “With each step, my war was over.”. Forearms are kept at 90-degree angles.
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They protect fellow soldiers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, making sure they are never alone. To stand there—with absolute precision, in every type of weather, at every moment of the day, one in a line uninterrupted since midnight July 2, 1937—is the ultimate privilege and the most difficult post to earn in the army.
Oct 12, 2021 · National Archives MuseumOnline. November 11, 2021, is the 100th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Author Jeff Gottesfeld will read from his children’s book Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which tells the story of how the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier came into being.
