"Nearly seventy miles northeast of Paris, there are over twenty cemeteries where the bodies of mostly unidentified German, British, and Italian soldiers are buried from the first World War. There is also Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, the final resting place for over six thousand Americans that lost their lives during the Great War, many of whom fell upon the very ground where their last earthly remains lay during the Third Battle of the Aisne. It was during that bloody battle that a stray dog became the most decorated canine in American military history."
Read the full story in Lapham's Quarterly.
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