Photo of the Day

No. 535

how much does democracy cost?

American troops cross Westminster Bridge in a parade through London, September 5, 1917.

More than one million American men served in Europe during World War I.

American soldiers on the front lines in France, c. 1917.

117,465 of them died there from battle injuries or disease.

August 1918.

This was the price our great-grandfathers paid to defend European democracy.

Two Americans run past the bodies of German soldiers as they head for a bunker in France, c. 1917.

When an American soldier was killed in World War I, his unit would bury him in a temporary grave near where he fell.

Temporary grave marker with identification tag, August 1918.

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