Table of Contents

"Pilgrims," from Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Map of ABMC Cemeteries and Monuments Introduction Part I Repatriation 1 The Journey's End 2 Origins 3 A Daunting Pledge 4 Charon's Price 5 A Problem of Policy 6 Make Way for Democracy! 7 Troubled Waters 8 Bringing Them Home Part II Remembrance 9 Republican Motherhood Thrives 10 A Star of Recognition 11 A Reluctant Giant 12 A Commission is Born 13 Sacred Space and Strife 14 We the People 15 Americans Make Waves Part III Return 16 A Country for Heroes? 17 Pilgrim or Tourist? 18 Commemoration or Celebration? 19 Pilgrims' Progress 20 Mothers and Politics 21 Mathilda's victory 22 Stars of Black and Gold 23 Highballs on the High Seas 24 A Personal Experience Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Unpacks the politics and processes of competing interest groups involved in the three core components of commemoration of the fallen: repatriation, remembrance, and return

About the Author

Lisa M. Budreau, Ph.D, is a Senior Curator of Military History at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. She is editor of Answering the Call: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919.

Reviews

"Budreau's book is a monument to the power of civil society in framing American commemorative practices. [A] fine contribution to the history of American memory culture." Jay Winter, author of Remembering War: The Great War between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century "[Budreau] offers some of the very first serious analysis on the question of the repatriation of America's World War I dead, the emergence of the American Battlefield Monuments Commission, and the story of the Gold Star mothers' pilgrimage." John Bodnar, Indiana University