Rhonda Chambless, age 13, of Sarepta, Louisiana, for her question:

Was a real body buried in the grave of the Unknown Soldier?

No nation can express its full heart felt grief for the young men who lose their lives in warfare. But a nation can try. After World War I, the allied nations tried to honor their dead with a special token. Each nation took an unknown body from the torn battlefields. It was buried with the national honors usually reserved only for heroes. And the tomb be¬came a national shrine. Yes, there is a body in the tomb. Four bodies of unknown American soldiers were sent home from the fields of France. An American soldier named Sergeant Edward Younger selected the one to be buried as a symbol of all our honored dead. No one knows his name or who he was.

The white marble tomb of this Unknown Soldier stands in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. With it are two others. One contains the body of an unknown American who died in World War II, the other contains an unknown soldier who died in the Korean War.