That photo of soldiers protecting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? Yeah, it’s from September.
29 Oct
If you’ve spent any time on Facebook this morning, no doubt you’ve seen this picture of soldiers guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, despite a giant Frankenstorm bearing down on the area. Lots of news outlets, like NPR, Talking Points Memo and The Blaze, shared the powerful photo.
Inspiring. Heart Warming. Patriotic. The only problem? As Andrew Beaujon over at Poynter unearthed, the photo is from September, taken in the rain by photographer Karin Markert.
She took a bunch of photos, and you can check them all out here.
Although this photo above was from September, according to the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, the Army Photo below by Sgt. Jose A. Torres Jr. shows pc. Brett Hyde, Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment keeping guard today.
So if you want to share the correct photo of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier being guarded during Hurricane Sandy, share this one.
What are they protecting it from? I don’t think even three of them could have stopped Sandy, anyway.
They’re gonna shoot at sandy. That’ll stop the tomb made of delicate, breakable rock from getting wet. Oh the Humanity!
Haha
Don’t be a cocksucker. Learn some history before making remarks like that.
You’re either really young or really stupid. They aren’t protecting anything… its tradition they walk they do it in honor for the MIA soldiers. Hence “Unknown Soldier”. Go do some research…
Why is/are this/these picture(s) such a big deal? The soldiers walk 24/7, 365, like how anonymous said, to honor the MIA soldiers that haven’t been found.
I hope I see the day when all of these HEROS can come home and they send all you disrespectful dumbfucks out there instead. You guys are pathetic.