This is definitely a place to visit in the next four years to commemorate the centennial of that long-ago war.
You can see a pair of woolen socks knitted by first lady Edith Wilson as a highlight of the home front war effort.
Nearby, there is a cane carved from the wooden propeller blade of a plane piloted by Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt who died in combat just four months before the Armistice was signed. Future World War II and Korean War President Harry Truman was overseas as well as an artillery officer in the Missouri National Guard.
The writer mentions that there is so much to see and take in, that admission covers two days.
Near the end of the visit to the museum, you encounter an exhibit called "A World Transformed" which features reflections of various people who lived through the war. You see that novelist H.G. Wells warned "If we do not end war, war will end us."
Another said: "It cannot be that two million Germans should have fallen in vain.... We do not pardon; we demand vengeance!" These were written by a twice-wounded German soldier from Austria. His name was Adolf Hitler.
--DaCoot
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