Barak Mattingly was once the most influential Republican in St. Louis. That meant more in his time than it does today. Mattingly died in 1956, long before I got here,
A Tribute to the Dead, A Reminder to the Living
We must strive to be worthy of their sacrifices.
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The Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial at Waregem, the only WWI U.S. military cemetery in Belgium. (Photo by: Arterra/Universal Images Group/ Getty Images.)
You could think of World War I as the last of 1,200 years of conflicts between the rival royal houses of Europe. Or you could think of it as the first war of the American era of world history. But if you’re like most of us, you usually don’t think of it at all.