Monumento Nacional aos Mortos da Segunda Guerra Mundial

This guide to the National War Memorial in Rio de Janeiro traces a promise Marshal Mascarenhas de Moraes made in Italy in the 1940s: that every soldier who fell under his command would come home. It follows the engineering feat that created the very ground you're standing on, reclaimed from Guanabara Bay, and the 1960 mission that brought 462 Brazilian soldiers back from a cemetery in Pistoia, Italy, ending in a procession led by President Juscelino Kubitschek. Listen for how one urn carried no name at all.