326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
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After the World War ended, the families of the American war dead were faced with a difficult choice. Political leaders like former President Theodore Roosevelt were encouraging families to leave the dead with their comrades in European cemeteries to create stronger political ties between the United States and Europe. Grieving families found that their decision on where to bury the dead had become... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Families Join the Debate over Where to Bury the War Dead
2: Families Correspond with the Graves Registration Service
3: Family Members Fight to be "Next of Kin"
4: Families Seek Control over the Bodies of the Dead
5: Searching for the Missing, Identifying the Unknown
6: Families Decide Where the American War Dead will be Buried
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Tracy Fisher is an attorney for the United States government. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School and her Doctorate of Philosophy in History from George Mason University.
