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Commemorating the 'Great War,' America's forgotten conflict

  • Written by G. Kurt Piehler, Associate Professor of History, Florida State University
Commemorating the 'Great War,' America's forgotten conflictDoughboys fighting in France, 1917.Associated Press

World War I was still a living memory for most Americans when I was growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Aging doughboys who had fought on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918 still marched on Veterans Day. These World War I enlisted men often referred to this holiday by its original name, Arm...

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