Fallen WWI Soldiers from Weakley County, Tennessee
| American
Cemetery at Romagne, France, 1919 |
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| American cemetery at Romagne,
France (May 28, 1919) where US soldiers killed at the Battle of the
Meuse-Argonne are buried. This picture shows only half of the
cemetery. |
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| “From the observation platform
high up Montfaucon Memorial tourists can peer across five miles of the
world’s bloodiest ground to Meuse-Argonne Cemetery. There lie buried
over 14,000 U.S. Soldiers, most of them under alabaster crosses, a
sprinkling of Jews under the six-pointed Star of David. Some have for
an epitaph “Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier known but
to God”, which is also graven over the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.
Theirs the largest U.S. Cemetery abroad, containing almost half the
bodies not returned to the Motherland. “Of 78,734 soldiers who died in France, 46,000 have been returned to this country for burial; 3,652 are still missing, 600 are buried at sea. Some 1,700 bodies remain unidentified. It cost the Government $394 to repatriate a dead U.S. soldier from France”. (President Roosevelt speech, Time Magazine, Aug 9, 1937) Submitted by Pansy Nanney Baker |
| What
the Cemetery looks like today |
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| Ariel view |
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Download PDF file of picture brochure of the Cemetery - you
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