- Finally, the last person to come home from the war is the unknown soldier.

And for me, this is where the war actually ends.

Remarkably, the United States neither seeks nor takes any territory in World War I. In fact, the only land that the United States ends up with are leases for nine cemeteries for American debt.

Today, they're lovingly maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission of the United States government.

The bodies of a great number of these soldiers in these cemeteries are so damaged that they cannot be identified.

Their inscriptions all read the same.

Here rests in honored glory and American soldier known but to God.

[gentle instrumental music] [audience applauding] In 1921, Congress votes to create the tomb of the unknown soldier.

The army randomly selects one unknown soldier from the nine cemeteries.

The soldiers carried from France across the Atlantic on the pride of the US fleet, the USS Olympia.

The body lies in state, in the capital rotunda.

An honor never given before to a common boy.

November 11th, 1921 is dedicated a national holiday.

This day will be our Veterans Day.