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Thomas H. Conner
'No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one which gave him birth in paying tribute to his memory, and the kindly hands which so often come to spread flowers up
Autor:
Thomas H. Conner
Publikováno v:
Technology and Culture. 63:912-913
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::1b591d488f9bb6538d4a79ce65f93dee
https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2022.0143
https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2022.0143
Autor:
Thomas H. Conner
Publikováno v:
War and Remembrance
This chapter discusses the creation of the first generation of ABMC sites. By the end of the 1920s, it had begun work on the erection of monuments in Europe and had hired fourteen architects for the construction of the approved eight chapels and fift
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::07928ee363cbbda5f24d5e88aa670d1d
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0004
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0004
Autor:
Thomas H. Conner
Publikováno v:
War and Remembrance
This chapter looks at the work the ABMC has been doing since World War II ended. The chairmanships of Generals Jacob Devers and Mark Clark are explored in some detail. Maintenance of the memorials is a mission of remembrance that the ABMC is strongly
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0009
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0009
Autor:
James Scott Wheeler, Thomas H. Conner
Every year, people from all over the world visit American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) sites, from Normandy, France, to Busan, South Korea, to Corozal, Panama. At rest in the twenty-six overseas cemeteries are almost 139,000 dead, and memoriali
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.001.0001
Autor:
Thomas H. Conner
Publikováno v:
War and Remembrance
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
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::85e89e3e1f352b798944712b330aa884
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0005
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0005
Autor:
Thomas H. Conner
Publikováno v:
War and Remembrance
This chapter discusses the closing of World War II and the new work the ABMC was directed to accomplish. Existing memorials needed to be restored, and hundreds of thousands of American soldiers needed to be buried in new overseas cemeteries or sent h
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::f243f380c879512f24ab342a56e4b42b
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0007
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0007
Autor:
Thomas H. Conner
Publikováno v:
War and Remembrance
This chapter looks at the establishment of the ABMC and the history of American cemeteries and monuments in Europe. During the First World War, in a span of about seven months, America left more than 75,000 American soldiers dead in Europe. Torn betw
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0002
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0002
Autor:
Thomas H. Conner
Publikováno v:
War and Remembrance
The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was created by an act of Congress in 1923. For more than ninety years the ABMC has been one of the smallest independent federal agencies. This chapter introduces the coming text and that the book will e
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::8af3000b337e0021c98e1448df1900c0
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0001
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0001
Autor:
Thomas H. Conner
Publikováno v:
War and Remembrance
This chapter looks at the longer aftermath of WWII and traces the creation of the second generation of ABMC sites. Focusing on the process of securing grounds overseas, allowing family members to decide where their loved ones would be buried, and obt
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https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0008
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0008