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Great War remembered but lessons oft forgotten

By World Tribune on November 14, 2018 Canada, Columnists, Exclusives, France, John Metzler

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler MONTREAL — World leaders met in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which ended the Great War in 1918. The solemn gathering convened by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, saw 80 heads of state among them President Donald Trump, […]

Saluting the ‘doughboys’ who 100 years ago entered WWI, ending American neutrality

By World Tribune on August 13, 2017 Columnists, Exclusives, France, Germany, John Metzler, Rest of The Best, Stateside, U.S. Military, U.S. Politics, Washington

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler St. NAZAIRE, France — “Lafayette, we are here,” became the clarion call upon the arrival of the American Expeditionary Force to France in 1917. The USA had just entered the hostilities, three years into the Great War, and now the battle hardened U.S. General John Pershing was in […]