markl Posted 11 November , 2005 Share Posted 11 November , 2005 Should DNA be used to identify the unknown warrior? What do pals think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dycer Posted 11 November , 2005 Share Posted 11 November , 2005 No,let him rest in peace. Just to add,in view of Tom's post below,my Father(and many others) clung to the faint hope that his Brother may be the Unknown Soldier and I am happy to share his hope.If the Soldier was identified how many Families, past and present, would have their small comfort shattered? George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 11 November , 2005 Share Posted 11 November , 2005 Wouldn't it be impossible anyway? When you've got a sample of DNA from the Unknown Warrior, what do you do then? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aconnolly Posted 12 November , 2005 Share Posted 12 November , 2005 Agree with the above. Look at the mess in the US when the Vietnam "Unknown" was identified - even an uproar over what medals the family of the "identified" unknown could take. "Of all symbols, he is the most nameless, the most symbolic; yet few that Man has ever devised can have given such a clear cut image of reality; for every one of us who has his own dead could not fail to see that they too went with him; that, after two years of waiting, we could at last lay as wreath to the memory of that great company." Sir Alan Lascelles, Private Secretary to the King, HM George Vth, 11 November 1920 on the day of the internment of the Unknown Soldier. Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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