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FIRST TOMB BADGE RECIPIENT LAID TO REST
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ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:
The first recipient of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Guard Identification Badge was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery Wednesday, a mere hundred yards south of the tomb he guarded in life.
Retired Master Sgt. William Daniel served as a tomb sentinel and sergeant of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from February 1957 to June 1960. He was there May 30, 1958, when the unknowns from World War II and the Korean War were interred there.
Daniel served in the Army for 22 years, retiring in 1965. He ...
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