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  • Southwestern Oklahoma State University students, from left, Blaine Boyd, Samantha Carson, Taylor Boyd and Cord Gothard recently laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Photo submitted

    Southwestern Oklahoma State University students, from left, Blaine Boyd, Samantha Carson, Taylor Boyd and Cord Gothard recently laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
June 3, 2012

SWOSU students visit Tomb of the Unknowns in D.C.

Staff Writer The Duncan Banner

DUNCAN — Four Southwestern Oklahoma State University students, including one local student, traveled to the nation’s capital and the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery on the day after Memorial Day to lay a wreath.

The four students — Blaine Boyd and Taylor Boyd, of Weatherford, Samantha Carson of Elk City, and Cord Gothard of Velma — are students in SWOSU’s President’s Leadership Class program at the school’s Weatherford campus.

The students were accompanied by a Tomb Guard sentinel as they placed the wreath on the tomb. The placement was followed by a bugler playing Taps as the delegation stood in salute.

“It was very emotional to pay tribute to all the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces,” Blaine Boyd said in a news release. “We are forever grateful for their service and sacrifice.”

The Tomb of the Unknowns is a monument dedicated to American service members who died unidentified, with soldiers buried there from World War I, World War II and the Korean War. The sentinels on duty at the tomb, which is guarded around the clock, are members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment.

The students and SWOSU President Randy Beutler were in Washington D.C. along with other members of Class V. PLC students make the trip after two years in the program.

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