Changing Of The Guard Wood Print

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The Tomb of the Unknowns is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and in any weather by Tomb Guard sentinels. These sentinels are considered to be the best of the elite 3rd United States Infantry (the Old Guard), headquartered at Fort Myer, Virginia, which is adjacent to and directly behind Arlington National Cemetery, where the tomb is located.

In an elaborate ritual the guard is changed every hour on the hour from October 1 to March 31, and then from April 1 through September 30 the guard is changed on the half hour as well, allowing twice the amount of viewing of the Changing of the Guard during the warmer months when there are more tourists in the cemetery.

The ritual starts when an impeccably uniformed relief commander appears on the plaza near the tomb to announce the Changing of the Guard. Soon the new sentinel arrives from the nearly Quarters of the Guard and unlocks the bolt of his or her M-14 rifle to signal to the relief commander to start the ceremony. The...

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...