Protester Kneeling At The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier In Arlington National Cemetery?

Snopes: Did a Protester Kneel During a Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?

A viral photograph shows a man kneeling and recording a video at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, but it's unclear whether he was also protesting.

Amid intensifying public debate about the right of NFL players and others to protest against police brutality and social injustice, a photograph emerged online in late September 2017 appearing to show a young black man kneeling at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.

The web site America’s Freedom Fighters wrote:

An anonymous poster recently uploaded a particularly disappointing picture in a thread discussing the protests of the National Anthem during the NFL games. In the photo, a black man with scraggly hair, dressed in baggy khakis and a white t-shirt is seen on one knee hunched over to the side as a crowd of respectful on-lookers places their hands over their hearts and looks toward the flag.

…This is a protest that occurred during the changing of the guard at the most sacred site in all of the Arlington National Cemetery: the tomb of the Unknowns.

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WNU Editor: OMG!!!! I hope this is not happening, and that this is just a very bad joke.

Pentagon To Officially Identify The U.S.S. Oklahoma Unknowns Killed At Pearl Harbor And Now Buried At Hawaii’s National Memorial Cemetery

Time: Pearl Harbor’s ‘Unknown’ Dead to Be Exhumed and Identified Using DNA

"We will do so with dignity, respect and care”

The Pentagon said Tuesday that the bodies of up to 388 troops killed during the Pearl Harbor attacks, who are buried in “unknown” graves in Hawaii, will be disinterred and identified using the latest DNA technology.

Japanese torpedoes sank the U.S.S. Oklahoma, killing 429 servicemen, during the infamous offensive of December 1941. The sailors and Marines are entombed in Hawaii’s National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, but will be examined at the Hawaii laboratory of the Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Accounting Agency after families were notified Tuesday morning.

WNU Editor: Some family members want closure, and for that I feel comfortable to support this new policy. But will this eventually mean more exhumations and identifications at other cemeteries .... probably.

More News On Identifying The Dead From The U.S.S. Oklahoma Killed During The Pearl Harbor Attack

Pentagon plans to identify hundreds killed in Pearl Harbor -- FOX News/AP
US to exhume remains of Pearl Harbor dead for identification -- BBC
USS Oklahoma Pearl Harbor Victims To Be Exhumed: Department Of Defense Plans To Identify Bodies Of Sailors, Marines -- IBTimes
The scars of USS Oklahoma: Why the Pentagon changed its policy for exhuming human remains -- Dan Lamonthe, Washington Post

Pentagon Will Continue The Policy To Not ID Unknown World War II Soldiers

Former Pentagon investigator Rick Stone kneels quietly by a grave marker of a "known unknown," a serviceman from World War II in the military cemetery in Honolulu, one of more than 125 whom Stone says should be given back his name and returned to his family. Dennis Funes / NBC News

Pentagon Agency Under Fire For Refusing To ID Unknown World War II Soldiers -- NBC

HONOLULU – Rick Stone stands in a volcanic crater overlooking Pearl Harbor, in the military cemetery known as the Punchbowl. Looking around him, it's easy to spot the graves marked "Unknown." They're the ones where no relatives bring flowers.

Standing beside one marker, Stone says its occupant isn't unknown to him. He is "100 percent" sure this is the grave of Earl Leroy Morrison, who was killed on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor.

More than 2,000 U.S. unknown soldiers from World War II are buried in this cemetery alone, among the more than 8,500 unknowns from World War II interred in U.S. military cemeteries worldwide.

But a Pentagon agency has refused to conduct DNA tests to determine once and for all whose bones are in the graves of the unknowns, even when its own investigators say they have narrowed it down to only one possible match.

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My Comment: This is very discouraging .... and so wrong.

No Laughing At The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier