conclusion

After studying the The Tomb of the Unknown i believe it is plausable. Most likely the sentries stood their posts when the hurricane passed through.

Reporters from CNN world news interviewed many of the sentenals after the hurricane and discovered that they continued to walk their post. 

Tom Brokaw of NBC News saluted "this display of pride and patriotism," reporting that "those who guard the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were told they could abandon their 24-hour-a-day post and come indoors, they refused."
Web. 27 Oct. 2010. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/stood-their-post.htm.

 story originally told by army sgt. 1st class Fredrick Geary, age 37; narrated by Lcpl Syner
Hurricane Isabel was reaching her strongest and most dangerous we had seen so far when the order came down that we could abandon the tomb and seek refuge

"We made the decision we were going to stand where we were,"
Around the clock each day for about two hours at a time, seven soldiers
take turns manning the tomb where the first unknown soldier was buried in 1921.
But on Thursday night, during the height of the storm, Sgt. of the Guard
Geary took it upon himself to march for 5-1/2 hours before the tomb against
heavy rain and 60 mph wind gusts.The wind was so strong that it felled at least 24 trees on cemetery
grounds, most more than 20 years old. In turn, three headstones were crushed. Crews
began working at 4 a.m. Friday to clean up the 612 acres scattered with
downed trees and limbs. The tombstones could be replaced within two weeks,
officials say. Looking at the tomb on Friday, Geary, who led the charge to stay, choked
up: "Did they volunteer? Did they get drafted? How did they die? They did their
job and this country paid them back by not remembering who they were. We
have a job to do here and at no time was a life in danger.
"It was my life. I was just doing what I believed to be right."
<http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/t/tombofunknowns.htm>.

blog 2

Appearently and much to my surprise, I was wrong about one thing, when I visited the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier, I swore it was guarded by marines. I was sadly mistaken... 
 
"Recently, while you were sleeping, the teeth of hurricane Isabel came through this area and tore hell out of everything. We had thousands of trees down, power outages, traffic signals out, roads filled with downed limbs and "gear adrift" debris. We had flooding and the place looked like it had been the impact area of an off-shore bombardment.
The Regimental Commander of the U.S. Third Infantry sent word to the nighttime Sentry Detail to secure the post and seek shelter from the high winds, to ensure their personal safety.


THEY DISOBEYED THE ORDER!"
TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER(Interesting Facts)." Latest Articles. Web. 20 Oct. 2010. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1126293/posts.)


It was erroneously reported that during Hurricane Isabel, the Sentinels were ordered to abandon their posts for shelter and that they refused. No such order was ever given. All proper precautions were taken to ensure the safety of the Sentinels while accomplishing their mission. Risk assessments are constantly conducted by the Chain of Command during changing conditions to ensure that soldier welfare is maintained during mission accomplishment  
("FAQ." Society of the Honor Guard - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Web. 20 Oct. 2010. http://www.tombguard.org/FAQ.html.)

proposal

For this blogging  assignment I have chosen something that is considered by most to be myth; altough less than one percent of one percent of all Americans consider it to be nothing less than truth. America has a population of over 300 million people; all of our military forces are made up of one percent of those Americans, and the United States Marine Corp is made of one percent of that one percent. In 2003 Hurricane Isabel struck the east for the ninth time in one year, more specifically Washington DC. In DC there is a place where only our nations bravest warriors earn the ability to call this their final resting place upon this earth. Arlington National Cemetery is home for every medal of honor recipient this nation has ever been lucky enough to call one of our own, as well as the home to every fearless warrior that didn,t make it home and whose name will never be carved into granite. The Tomb of the Unknown serves as a reminder of all of those who never made it back to our great nation, whose remains will never be carried home and given the proper burial they deserve. This tomb is guarded every second of every day by our nations finest Marines, never to be left alone at anytime no matter what is happening in the world. The majority of people believe the Tomb of the Unkown was left unguarded during Hurricane Isabel, although I wasn,t personally there, I know marines wouldn,t disrespect those who gave ther lives for every single person who lives freely. We have a greater sense of honor than abandoning those that came before us just because there was some water falling from the sky.