10 U.S.C. § 1134
Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war
United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective
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The medal of honor awarded posthumously to a deceased member of the armed forces who, as an unidentified casualty of a particular war or other armed conflict, is interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, is awarded to the member as the representative of the members of the armed forces who died in such war or other armed conflict and whose remains have not been identified, and not to the individual personally.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005House: 359–14Senate: no recorded tally