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Flanders provincial commemoration of WWI still touches hearts
The very last figurines in the possession of the Province of West Flanders Provincial Council from Coming World Remember Me (CWRM) are still occasionally donated to important provincial partners and foreign visitors who continue to [...]
First-Time Metal Detectorist Tells of Panic After Finding WWI Mortar Bomb
A first-time UK metal detectorist has spoken of panicking after realizing he had found an unexploded mortar bomb. Ryan Junor was metal detecting with his teenage son and friends on Tuesday night in Invergordon, Ross [...]
History of VA in 100 Objects/Object 52: Native American Recruits
At the start of the Great War in 1914, only about half of the 300,000 Native Americans in the United States were citizens. Although the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all “persons born or naturalized [...]
This Black Iowan saved hundreds of soldiers in WWI.
Should he have received a Medal of Honor? The bodies of his friends, men he’d grown to call brothers, lie just out of reach, twisted and mangled amid the battlefield’s muddy sludge. Every pause in [...]
WWI Veteran Dr. Frank Boston was a pioneer and laid the groundwork for modern EMS
As we observe Black History month, more facts have come to light about Army Veteran Major Frank Boston, who served in World War I. In addition to being the first African American to start both [...]
A Love. A War. A Citizen.
What drives people to join the military? Patriotism? Poverty? Fear? Honor? Glory? Citizenship? The draft? Love? The reasons are many and, in many cases, more than one reason applies. This is the true story of [...]
Relatives shocked by identification of First World War soldier a century after being reported missing
The family of a man who fought and died in the First World War say they thought they were being scammed at first when they got the call asking for a DNA sample to identify [...]
Florence Standish – Early 20th Century Asheville, VA nurse
The History of the Asheville Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) is a complex and fascinating one spanning over a century of care. Research continues to uncover connections, placing the people of this historic hospital site [...]
Lumber from World War I Research at the Forest Products Laboratory Helps Repair the U.S. Capitol Building
The United States Capitol building was breached on January 6, 2021. Historically significant materials, many made of wood, were stolen, damaged, or destroyed. Shortly after the breach, the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) [...]
