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Newsman Recalls First Unknown Soldier Story
Karke Simpson, AP Washington staffer, wrote the 1921 Unknown Soldier burial piece that earned the first AP Pulitzer. He recalls meeting at the Navy Yard with Olympia and Arlington entombment, crafting prose inspired by Stevenson and Taps to move readers nationwide.
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Robert Eunson
Los Gatos
Calif
Karke Simpson
Simpson
Associated Press
Washington
Washington Navy Yard
Olympia
George Dewey
Manila
France
War Department
Philippines
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jack London
Jack Lonsign
San Francisco
California
Oakland Tribune
Tonopah
New
Catafalque
Steve Early
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Arlington
Stevenson
America
Kirke Simpson