host: allison finkelstein, how did the whole concept of the unknown soldier being honored come about? allison: well, it really goes back to the beginning of the meck anodizeation of warfare that you see -- mechanization of warfare that expands during world war i. people were really struggling with the fact that they could not figure out who many of these casualties were, so great britain and france in 1920 buried an unknown soldier in each of their countries. in great britain it was in westminster abby and in france it was under the arch detriumph in paris. the u.s. decided to do something similar. the idea was started by representative hamilton finch of new york who submitted legislation to bury an unknown soldier from the u.s. i believe they are in france right now where the unknown soldiers were taken from four different cemeteries. --. ieve mitchell: i've walked through those streets before and it's interesting to see, to me, you know, how many people turned out. not just the army as we can see mostly in this scene, but french civilians showing their honor and patriotism toward th

host: allison finkelstein, how did this whole concept of unknown soldier being honored come about? allison: it really goes back to beginning of mechanicization of work, more unidentified remain, more in the civil war. people were struggling with the fact they couldn't figure out who many of these casualties were. great britain and france in 1920 buried an unknown soldier in each of their countries, great britain, westminster abbey, so the u.s. decided to do something similar to that. the idea was started by representative hamilton fish of new york who presented legislation to bury an unknown soldier in the u.s. i believe in france where the unknown soldiers were taken from four different cemeteries. guest: i've walked through those streets before and it's interesting to see, to me, how many people turned out. not just the army as we can see mostly in the scene but french civilians showing their honor and patriotism towards the americans and really supporting the role the americans played helping liberate france during this really difficult time. host: so the french populace had a re