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| Michael Strauss - Dog Tags: Identifying our Deceased Military Veterans |
| 2023-05-22 |
| [fold3 HQ] Thanks to our special guest contributor Michael Strauss, an Accredited Genealogist from AncestryProGenealogists® for this informative article on military research using dog tags. Behind the imposing gates of Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia rests the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Around the clock, active-duty personnel stand as sentinels remembering our fallen veterans. Many cemeteries have remains of soldiers from past wars marked with a single haunting word, "Unknown." To properly identify each man and woman who have paid the ultimate price for their country, the military created identification tags. Here is a look at how those tags have changed over the years. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 When eldest son deployed to Afghanistan as a combat engineer, he asked me to get multiple sets of dog tags made up and send them to him. The reason? They would take individual tags and put in boot laces, pants cuffs, each pocket, etc. They regularly dealt with IED's, and the idea is to make each part of your body identfiable in case there's an 'boom'. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-05-22 09:21 |