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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery 20240713

Died in the meuseargonne area, but there were also some civilians and other soldiers that were brought from other areas . Yes, but basically, most of the soldiers here died during the meuseargonne. The final result was dramatic for that battle. It was over 26,000 soldiers killed, 96,000 wounded, more or less. Of the soldiers are buried in that cemetery. We have a few civilians, maybe we will see some graves later on. Especially nurses, people from the american red cross, ymca, some special graves we will see walking in the graveyard. The cemetery itself were graves that were consolidated from smaller cemeteries. So when soldiers died in battle, they were buried in small cemeteries around the region. And then the American Government had made the decision that they would allow families to repatriate their loved ones after the war. So about 60 70 of the families brought their bodies back to the u. S. The other roughly 30 remaine ....

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