The idea of celebrating all the soldiers that died during the First World War through the tribute to one single soldier whose body was not identified, began to spread during the Summer of 1921. After 3 month search, a governmental commission was charged of selecting the rests of 11 unidentified soldiers in the cemeteries situated in some Northern Italian regions, and the mother of a missing soldier was called up to decide what was the body that should have been buried in Rome at the famous tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The missing soldier’s coffin travelled all over Italy on a train and thousands of people greeted it with cheers and flags spontaneously from the North to Rome.