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New push for WWI memorial, 116,000 Americans killed ‘virtually forgotten’

By Paul Bedard
Published July 2, 2018 3:45pm ET
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New push for WWI memorial, 116,000 Americans killed ‘virtually forgotten’
Supporters for a new World War I memorial in Washington are stepping up their campaign to honor those killed before the great war is forgotten. “We are not a country that forgets those who serve, and yet in WWI we lost 116,000 Americans and we have virtually forgotten,” said retired Adm. Michael Mullen, a former […]

Supporters for a new World War I memorial in Washington are stepping up their campaign to honor those killed before the great war is forgotten.

“We are not a country that forgets those who serve, and yet in WWI we lost 116,000 Americans and we have virtually forgotten,” said retired Adm. Michael Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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