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Article: WWI's 'rightful place': The organizers of a new museum in Kansas City hope to show how World War I marked a turning point in American history and set in motion waves of turmoil and transformation still felt today.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- November 26, 2006
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Byline: Stevenson Swanson
Nov. 26--KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It was the war to end all wars. It was supposed to make the world safe for democracy. American soldiers were called doughboys, not GI Joes. For Americans, World War I is the second-place world war. Although the conflict's death and devastation are never far from the minds of Europeans, the Great War has long been overshadowed in the U.S. by its successor. The recent focus in books and movies on the "Greatest Generation," the men and women who fought and served in World War II, has pushed the earlier conflict even further into the shadows, despite the fact that it resulted in 9 million war deaths. ...
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... ... overlooking downtown Kansas City. Dodging fellow viewmasters ... and motored south to Kansas City. My mission: to explore ... preceded it. The National World War I Museum, which opened ... what is now downtown Kansas City. After being entombed ...
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