---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1134"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1134"
heading: "Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1134"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 57 — Decorations and Awards"
---

# §1134. Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war


The medal of honor awarded posthumously to a deceased member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) who, as an unidentified casualty of a particular war or other armed conflict, is interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, is awarded to the member as the representative of the members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) who died in such war or other armed conflict and whose remains have not been identified, and not to the individual personally.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title V, § 561(a), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1917.)