The Completion of the ABMC’s Original Mission and Looking toward an Uncertain Future, 1937–1938
The Completion of the ABMC’s Original Mission and Looking toward an Uncertain Future, 1937–1938
This chapter examines the future for the ABMC after the project the agency had been created to do—namely, build and dedicate the eight cemetery chapels and eleven monuments—was completed. Discussing in great detail the planning for the dedication of the memorials in 1937, the chapter points out how the difficulties of that process paled in comparison to the solemn and honorable significance of the project the ABMC had been given. The dedications featured impassioned pleas for peace at a time that war clouds were again appearing in Europe. Once the dedications were finished, the ABMC was able to confound speculation that its termination would follow. This chapter ends with General Pershing surviving a near fatal bout of illness, and the beginning of the next European war that found the newly created monuments in the middle of the coming terror.
Keywords: ABMC, Chapels, European war, General Pershing, monuments
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