Today the Argonne has returned to the pastoral fields and farms of pre war France.
Evidence of the great battles of WWI has for the most part vanished except for the occasional
gray concrete structure looming in the middle of a remote field. However, to those who are
willing to venture off road into the forest, the evidence of the Great War is still everywhere.
Shell holes, collapsed trenches, battle debris still litter the forest floor.

And the Dead. The French country side is host to the American Battle Monuments Cemeteries.
An organization set up by AEF Commander Black Jack Pershing, it maintains the final resting place of the
Americans that fell in the Great War. Pristine in their condition and awe inspiring in their appearance
they remain as the single most inspiring relic of those days so long ago when a generation or our brightest
and best stepped forward to save civilization.

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