# Attacking Marine guards at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 3, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647 "2007-05-03T19:18:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647/41 "2019-09-11T22:59:16Z")
> [@Hawaiimp](#): > > Not true, Arlington National Cemetary is not a national park. It is not owned and operated by the national park service in any way shape or form, arlington is owned and operated by the Department of The Army and is a military installation that falls under Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall and is protected and patrolled by US Army Military Police and Department of the Army Federal police and not by national park police. As for the tomb sentinels, they are like any other Guard sentinel on any other military installation and do have the power to use deadly force in the event of a deadly attack that’s covered in their general orders however as this post is mainly ceremonial there is always DA police or MP’s around to handle incidents with the public and unless a terrorist came up with a suicide vest on to blow the tomb you would never see the guards use force they would leave that to the officers to take care of. Isn’t the very idea of a “suicide vest” something that is hidden from view? And how would one recognize a “terrorist”? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647/42 "2019-09-12T01:33:29Z")
Marines? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647/43 "2019-09-12T02:49:03Z")
The terrorists have won. They’ve destroyed our punctuation. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647/44 "2019-09-12T09:35:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The terrorists have won. They’ve destroyed our punctuation. So the USA has come to a full stop? Are our leaders commatose? Write to your representative in Congress - send a capital letter. There’s no margin for error and the wrong policy could lead to a backslash… ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647/45 "2019-09-12T13:25:28Z")
> [@glee](#): > > So the USA has come to a full stop? > Are our leaders commatose? > Write to your representative in Congress - send a capital letter. > There’s no margin for error and the wrong policy could lead to a backslash… This is so bad that reading it is more painful than a colonoscopy. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647/46 "2019-09-12T13:47:12Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > This is so bad that reading it is more painful than a colonoscopy. Then just get a semi-colonoscopy. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647/47 "2019-09-12T13:59:09Z")
Enough with the puns, dash it all! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647/48 "2019-09-12T14:51:02Z")
Interesting fact: Family of non-vets can be buried in Arlington. They just have to share the same grave. My Great Uncle, who was in the Old Guard, is buried above his wife and they’re both over their first son who was killed when he was 18. Not coincidentally, his brother is one grave over on the next row and both graves are prime locations at the top of a hill next to the cul de sac around the USS Maine memorial. I wish I’d understood how important all that was when I was a little kid running around the bench set in the memorial. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647/49 "2019-09-12T15:24:22Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Write to your representative in Congress - send a capital letter. For proper **pun** ishment, shouldn’t that be “capit **o** l letter”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attacking-marine-guards-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/402647.md?page=2)