March 19, 2011
These pictures are from the DC Shoot Off that I participated in. The theme of the pictures participants could submit was "On the Job."
I took these submissions at Arlington Cemetery Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
I also added my own personal theme of "Twenty-one."
These pictures are from the DC Shoot Off that I participated in. The theme of the pictures participants could submit was "On the Job."
I took these submissions at Arlington Cemetery Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
I also added my own personal theme of "Twenty-one."
Twenty-one steps in each direction is the length of the honor guards' patrol at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
Twenty-one year-old soldiers make up the honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
Twenty-one steps in each direction is the length of the honor guard's patrol at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
Students laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier are accompanied by a bugler that plays Taps in lieu of a 21-gun salute.
The honor guard on duty paces 21 steps and then faces the tomb for 21 seconds; a reference to the 21-gun salute given to fallen soldiers, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers in Arlington, Va.
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