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Burying America's World War Dead (Paperback)
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Burying America's World War Dead (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
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After the World War ended, the families of the American war dead
were faced with a difficult choice. Political leaders like former
President Theodore Roosevelt were encouraging families to leave the
dead with their comrades in European cemeteries to create stronger
political ties between the United States and Europe. Grieving
families found that their decision on where to bury the dead had
become a political choice. How did families advocate for their own
views? How were disputes within families resolved? And how did
families make their final decisions about where the dead should be
buried? Through an in-depth examination of the correspondence
between the United States government and the families of the dead,
this book will examine how families fought to ensure that the
government gave them what they needed. As the months stretched into
years before the war dead were given final burials, the families of
the dead demanded that the government give them the respect and
honor they felt they deserved as the next of kin of those who had
given their lives for the nation. The practices and traditions that
the government developed in response to these demands set patterns
that still guide the way that the military treats the families of
the war dead today.
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