Written by: Jeff Gottesfeld
Illustrated by: Matt Tavares
Published by: Candlewick Press
Read by: SgtMaj. Ashleigh Sykes, USA
Suggested ages: 7-10
Run time: 9:57 minutes

About Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Keeping vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery are the sentinel guards, whose every step, every turn, honors and remembers America’s fallen. They protect fellow soldiers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, making sure they are never alone. To stand there—with absolute precision, in every type of weather, at every moment of the day, one in a line uninterrupted since midnight July 2, 1937—is the ultimate privilege and the most difficult post to earn in the army. Everything these men and women do is in service to the Unknowns. Their standard is perfection.