Marines Lead Turkish- Morocco Attack on Soissons-Chateau-Thierry
Maj. Gen. Harbord recounts the 18 July 1918 push toward the Soissons Chateau-Thierry road. Moroccan shock troops led the assault with American divisions on both flanks, advancing six kilometers by afternoon, taking 8000 prisoners and 11 German batteries, while sustaining heavy losses but achieving pivotal gains.
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James G. Harbord
Soissons
Chateau-Thierry
Rheims
Marne
France
Salient
Verte Feuille Ferme
Soissons Chateau- Thierry
St. Privat
Germany
Morocco
America
Gettysburg
Pickett
Twenty
Soissons-Chateau-Thierry
Stars Replace Crosses on Jewish War Graves
War graves for Jewish soldiers were marked with the Star of David to distinguish them from Christian crosses. Christian graves retain crosses, while Jewish graves display stars. Chaplains’ collar insignia also shifted from a cross to a shepherd’s crook for the Jewish faith during the war.
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War Department
Illusion in the Park July Scene
A nostalgic fragment recalls children at play in a park in July. Lads form lines and run in the grass, imagining another day under a different sky. The text evokes memory and movement without detailing a specific event.
Robin perched on fife at GAR convention in Des Moines
At the national Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Des Moines Iowa Dr J W Benadom an 83 year old Monticello veteran delighted comrades by a robin named Rowley perching on his fife during stirring Civil War tunes The bird had a dislocated wing healed by the doctor who joined the Union forces in 1861.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Des Moines
Iowa
J. W. Benadom
Monticello
Rowley
Flowers for the Heroes in the Name of France
A Missouri couple visits Vichy to honor American graves in 1922. When told no American graves exist they place flowers on French graves instead, with many locals expressing gratitude and shared respect for the Allied dead. Vive l Americas, they hear.
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France
Vichy
Missouri
l'Amerique
Kansas City Star
Remembering Memorial Day Through Father’s Regimentals
A Detroit News reminiscence recalls a trunk box with a Grand Army of the Republic badge a loss of youth and family service. The author traces Memorial Day rituals from Civil War veterans to Pershing era kin honoring ancestors and the flag.
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Grand Army
Father
Georgia
John Brown
Gettysburg
Appomattox
Relief Corps
Sons of Veterans
Grant
Sherman
Pershing
Grandfather
Detroit News
All Worthy of Honor Tribute to nation’s fallen patriots
A memorial tribute honors patriots who sacrificed for the nation. It notes that some fell in various conflicts and that all shed blood for love of country. Their willingness to die expressed patriotism at its height and their memory remains the heritage of a united nation.
New York Unveils Gettysburg Memorial With Commanders Names
The memorial presents 41 division and brigade commanders on its base within an open portico. An eagle rises above the portico, wings outstretched, perched over a tablet bearing an inscription.
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New York
Memorial for war prisoners unveiled in Sweden
A World War memorial in Trelleborg recalls prisoners who died in Sweden while exchanges between Germany and Russia occurred. The stone shaft supports a grieving bird at its base, symbolizing loss amid the neutral country’s wartime role.
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Sweden
Trelleborg
Germany
Russia
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Victory Bugler Receives Legion of Honor for 1918 Armistice Call
Corporal Pierre Sellier the French bugler who sounded cease fire to allow German plenipotentiaries into French lines on November 7 1918 to negotiate the armistice was decorated a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. General Debeney oversaw the ceremony with General Gouraud present. The famed bugle now rests in the army museum at the Hotel des Invalides. Captain L Hullier ordered the cease firing and escorted Germans to Debeney's headquarters.
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Pierre Sellier
Debeney
Sellier
Hotel Des Invalides
Gouraud
Paris
L’hullier
Sel- Her
Genera Debeney
First Formal Memorial Day Ceremony Ordered in 1868
General Orders No. 2 dated May 5 1868 proclaimed May 30 as Memorial Day by Gen John A Logan leader of the Grand Army of the Republic. Exercises were held at Arlington Cemetery with Logan presiding and the Lee mansion platform erected.
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John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Arlington Cemetery
Logan
Lee Mansion
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Hero and
His Pal
Ida Bailey Allen
Corn Products Refining CO
Illinois Street
Chicago, Ill
Fletcher
Fiie
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