The link below provides for an article in the magazine The Week, which gives a summary of World War I in a recent issue. Of interest is the last paragraph, which deals with the meaning of Armistice Day and some resistance to the idea of having it renamed Veterans Day.
https://theweek.com/articles/805102/legacy-world-war
Blair Tarr is the Museum Curator of the Kansas State Historical Society. He oversees the three-dimensional collections of the Society, but has special interests in the Civil War, Wichita-made Valentine diners, and Leavenworth's Abernathy Furniture. In the last few years he has also done a lot of cramming on The Great War.
He is a past president of the Kansas Museums Association and the Civil War Round Tables of both Kansas City and Eastern Kansas. He is currently a board member of the Heritage League of Greater Kansas City.
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