100th anniversary of North Pole discovery

Family members of the two men who discovered the North Pole, Naval Facilities Engineering Command and Civil Engineer Corps personnel, and the United States Navy Ceremonial Guard honor the discovery on its 100th anniversary in a wreath laying ceremony at their grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery. Rear Adm. Robert E. Perry, Civil Engineer Corps, and Mathew A. Henson, explorer, attempted to reach the North Pole on eight expeditions over 22 years until they successfully reached it on April 6, 1909, at 10 a.m. (U.S. Navy photo by Mason Lowery/Released)