The attached article is an eye-witness account of the construction of the American Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in Romagne, France: "They are now gathering up the bodies of the 26,000 American boys who were killed on the Argonne-Meuse battlefield, and are burying them in a great cemetery at Romagne, a little town in the heart of the region where the fighting took place. Here and there all over the battlefield are stakes, each marking the grave of an American soldier who was buried where he fell." "In one of the office buildings a large force of clerks is keeping the records of the dead; no banking firm could be more careful of its accounts than are these clerks...and their superiors of their registration of graves."
Click here to read an article from 1927 by General Pershing regarding the American cemeteries in Europe.
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