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Military veterans of the United States Armed Services are being honored across the country today, Nov. 11. While growing up in the 1960s and ‘70s, G. Kurt Piehler encountered many people with a living memory of WWI. Today, Pieher is an associate professor of history at Florida State University. He's struck by how so few Americans can name a single battle or hero from the war. “The fact that World War I is the forgotten war for Americans serves as a cautionary tale that some important memories can fade despite sustained efforts to foster them,” he writes in this article for The Conversation:
https://flip.it/GVYp6r#Culture #Veterans #VeteransDay #War #WWI
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