WWI

 The First World War was on my mind this week with the addition of a new memorial outside The Montgomery Railroad Terminal downtown. That's where local soldiers left for service in the war in 1917. It was dedicated on Veterans Day.

 

 

 "The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the largest operations of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I, with over a million American soldiers participating. It was also the deadliest campaign in American history, resulting in over 26,000 soldiers being killed in action (KIA) and over 120,000 total casualties.  Indeed, the number of graves in the American military cemetery at Romagne is far larger than those in the more commonly known site at Omaha Beach in Normandy." 

SOURCE is HERE.

 

Among the 4.7 Million American men and women service in that first Wold War was this man. Yep, Walt Disney. He was an ambulance driver, as was Earnest Hemingway.

 

Walt Disney in WWI