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Veterans World WarI
HERE RESTS IN
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HONORED GLORY
ILWAUKER
ANAMERICAN
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SOLDIER
1985
KNOWN BUT TOGOD
53201
Ron Slean
WI
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WORLD WAR I VETERANS
First Day of Issue: August 26, 1985
First Issue Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
World War I – one of the most devastating wars in
history — began suddenly and unexpectedly when the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungary
throne, was murdered. Austria-Hungary suspected its
neighbor, Serbia, was behind the plot, and declared war
against the nation on July 28, 1914. By October 1914,
nearly every great European nation had entered the war.
However, it wasn't until three years later that the United
States entered the war. More than four million American
men and women answered their nation's call to go to
war. In 1918, at the end of the War, the valiant Americans
returned home and General John J. Pershing noted that
the Americans' “devotion, their valor and their sacrifice
will live forever in the hearts of their grateful country-
men." Indeed, it was the brave efforts of American troops
that helped turn the tide in this brutal war. As a fitting
tribute to the Americans who served in World War I, the
U.S. Postal Service issued the postage stamp featured on
this Maximum Card.
No. 85-47
©1985 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation . Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by Ron Sloan.
