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Here
are the stories and photos of Texans or Americans who trained in Texas
and their involvement in The Great War as it was called. It has become
one of the United States neglected wars, even though the casualties
exceeded 80,000 killed.
There is hardly a Texas Cemetery
without the graves of several Doughboys. The monuments
to them are all but invisible. The stance of their statues
is more belligerent and active than those erected to the dead of other
wars. It's ironic considering the time they spent immobile and dying
from disease.
They brought back war trophies from "The War to End All Wars" only
to have had them melted down in scrap drives to fuel another
World War. In many cases - especially in Texas
- there were men fighting their cousins. German immigrants had barely
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Daniel
Edwards: Hero or Hoax by Clay Coppedge 6-13-19
Alvin C. York had nothing on Daniel Edwards, other than, perhaps,
an abiding sense of honesty. Both men were awarded the Medal of
Honor to recognize their gallant actions in World War I, but York's
legacy has endured longer and stronger, partly due to the popularity
of the 1941 Gary Cooper movie, Sergeant York.
But Edwards' stories are the more incredible, even the ones he didn't
make up.
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A
War Hero Comes Home by Michael Barr 5-29-18
Pvt. Francisco Lemos was finally laid to rest in Mountain View Cemetery.
He was the first Kerr County soldier to die in World War I, and
the last American soldier killed in Europe to be brought home.
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WWI - The Camps
and Trenches
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Practicing Trench
Fighting in Texas
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
Standardized
wheel widths kept you in a rut by Delbert Trew
An article published in the October 2005 Farm Collector Magazine...
tells of an early U.S. government directive to all wagon manufacturers.
Dated Jan. 1, 1919, the directive stated that, "all wagons must
be made to conform to the auto track wheel width of 56 inches."..
The
War Protest by Bob Bowman
At the peak of another war ninety years ago, a small East Texas
sawmill town made a statement about American soldiers being killed
in a distant land.
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Corinth
Baptist Church Cemetery by John Troesser
WWI Veterans
Black church and cemetery
For a tiny cemetery - a disporportionate number of veterans graves.
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Battleship
Texas by Archie P. McDonald (From "All Things Historical")
Temple to the Brave, c.1932, Beaumont, Texas by John Troesser
Cooke
County Courthouse Clock
Images:
Brownsville,
Texas WWI Troops Parade
Canyon,
Texas WWI Monument
Celina,
Texas War Memorial
Fort
Bliss 1908
Jacksonville,
Texas WWI monument
Lufkin,
Texas Doughboy Statue
Mixon
Cemetery
Paris,
Texas WWI Memorial
Sinton,
Texas Doughboy Statue
Tombstones:
Roger's
Cemetery, Austin
Ledbetter
Cemetery, Fayette County
General:
Memorial
Day by Archie P. McDonald
When Americans pause at the ceremonial beginning of summer to honor
those who gave their lives in military service they are participating
in our national version of ancient rites...
Hamilton
celebrates Armistice Day Cartoon by Roger T. Moore
In
Graves They Lay by D. Knape
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WWI
Troops Parade in Brownsville
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
Fort
Bliss 1918
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
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Escapes, in its purpose to preserve historic, endangered and vanishing
Texas, asks that anyone wishing to share history, stories, and vintage/historic
photos, please contact
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