‘Unknown’ but Unforgotten

December 7: “He believed that once these graves were properly marked, then the Unknowns’ former [shipmates] might visit them to lay flowers and pay their respects.”  

The Men Who United the States

Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) chronicles singular individuals (“Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks”) whose stubborn genius lashed a nascent nation together into a powerful and glorious whole.