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Article: Keeping Alive the Memory of the Doughboy
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- VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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To commemorate the 90th anniversary of World War I's end, France is remembering America's role on the battlefields of the country's northeast region. Here is everything you need to know to go.
There is no land save their own in which we would rather have them rest," General of the Armies John J. Pershing told a Frenchman after witnessing him place flowers on American graves shortly after WWI. Indeed, six WWI cemeteries and nine monuments, administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), preserve the gravesites of 30,086 Doughboys in France today.
"Unfortunately, relatively few Americans are aware of the monumental tributes to their countrymen in France," says Charles Krohn, ...