July 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Great War -- also known as the War to End All Wars (which it didn't do) and later came to be called World War I. After the war the citizens of Kansas City, Missouri, raised funds to build a memorial to honor WWI soldiers.

Completed in the mid-1920s, the Liberty Memorial was later restored and expanded to include a large museum. The World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial was designated by Congress in 2004 as the nation's official World War I museum. To commemorate the centennial, the National World War I museum and Fold3 recently announced a collaboration to help preserve and share legacies of WWI veterans. Families are encouraged to share memories, photos, and stories of ancestors who served in the Great War. As part of the cooperative effort, Fold 3 has created Honor Pages on their website with photographs and other historical images from their collection. Here's the link: http://go.fold3.com/wwi-museum/.

The last surviving WWI vet, Frank Buckles, died in 2011 at the age of 110. He's not included on the Honor Wall (yet). Neither are Robert and Cecil Fraser, my dad's cousins. I never knew either of them, but among the old photographs I inherited is a picture postcard of Cecil as a doughboy. I should find and post it on Fold3. "Always remember and never forget."