National WWI Museum and Memorial

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In addition to seeing family and friends when I visit Kansas City, I love visiting the WWI museum.

The narrative of the start of the war, the American involvement, the Russian revolution , etc are fairly well known to me. What I enjoy the most is reading the newspapers, the propaganda, the letters

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Two more days in KC before we work our way to St. Louis (our college town), Indiana, and Ohio. We’ll be back “home” in NY by April 30.

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