<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Army Times at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/9mf7qo6">http://tinyurl.com/9mf7qo6</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><h2 style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; font-weight: normal; ">Old Guard stays at Tomb of Unknowns amid storm</h2></span></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span><form id="hidden" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; "></form><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ARLINGTON, Va. — Arlington National Cemetery has been closed to tourists as Hurricane Sandy approaches, but the Army continues to stand guard over the Tomb of the Unknowns.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Army’s Third U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as The Old Guard, is responsible for guarding the tomb.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A spokesman for the regiment, Maj. John Miller, says that when the cemetery closes, the guard continues. But it’s not the familiar, choreographed 21-pace guard that the public typically sees. Instead, soldiers in combat uniforms guard the tomb from a small enclosure covered by a green awning known as “the box,” about 20 feet away.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Miller says if the weather becomes intolerable, the tomb can be guarded from a room inside a nearby amphitheater. But no such order had been given as of Monday afternoon.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---------------</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Spc. Brett Hyde, Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), keeps guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during Hurricane Sandy at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., on Oct. 29.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; "><img src="cid:70285EFF-92FB-45F4-89DC-FDCB23CA0456" alt="image.jpeg" id="70285EFF-92FB-45F4-89DC-FDCB23CA0456" width="728" height="455"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>