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11-8-15

The War Washington Hasn’t Seen Fit to Commemorate (Though It Cost 116,000 Lives)

by Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee

The shocking answer is World War I. It’s finally getting a memorial, but questions remain about how it's being remembered.

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The War Washington Hasn’t Seen Fit to Commemorate (Though It Cost 116,000 Lives)

by Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee