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How Christianity shaped the experience and memories of World War I

  • Written by Jonathan Ebel, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
imageThe crosses at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France.Jonathan Ebel, CC BY

Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks 100 years since the United States entered World War I. World War I does not occupy the same space in America’s cultural memory as the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War II or the Vietnam War.

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