Created by Karin Markert @KMarkert88, to honor the sentry duties.
That photo of the Tomb of the Unknowns guard in the rain? It’s from September.
Updated Oct. 29, 2012 11:13 pm

A blood-stirring photograph of sentinels at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery is bucking up hurricane-soaked people in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Monday. Well, sorry, but it’s actually from last month, taken by a photographer named Karin Markert.

It appears the photo started to spread after it was posted on Facebook by the First Army Division East. It was shared more than 53,000 times and liked more than 43,000 times.

Markert explains in a comment below: “I was using it as my Facebook cover photo, which apparently is “public”, and what do you know? … Nobody “stole” it, IMHO. My guess is people are just sharing how proud they are of these soldiers and others.” On Facebook, she elaborates:

Apparently the picture has gone ‘viral,’ which is kind of shocking me today. I’ve seen it a bunch of places, with credit given to a whole lot of other sources. That just doesn’t matter to me. What’s most important, and please remember this, is that no matter how the photo ended up on everyone’s computer, I am just so very proud of these soldiers and the mission that they fulfill every day.

NPR picked up the photo, along with The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Slate and others.

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