how much does democracy cost?
More than one million American men served in Europe during World War I.
117,465 of them died there from battle injuries or disease.
This was the price our great-grandfathers paid to defend European democracy.
When an American soldier was killed in World War I, his unit would bury him in a temporary grave near where he fell.
The …
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