Service and Sacrifice

It would be hard to overstate the relief Americans felt in 1918 when they heard the “war to end all wars” was over. World War I, the deadliest conflict in history to that point, had ended. Many families would soon be reunited with fathers, husbands, sons, and brothers – but not every American in the Great War made it home. More than 116,000 Americans perished on the battlefields of Europe, and…