WORLD WAR I COURT OF HONOR MEMORIAL

AMERICAN LEGION POST 15 OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI HAS REACHED A SIGNIFICANT GOAL OF PRESERVING A VITAL PIECE OF ST. LOUIS HISTORY. IN THE EARLY 1920’S THE GOLD STAR MOTHERS OF ST. LOUIS CREATED A MEMORIAL TO HONOR THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF ST. LOUIS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES SERVING THEIR COUNTRY IN WORLD WAR I. THE MEMORIAL INCLUDED 1185 BRONZE PLAQUE THAT WERE THEN SET IN THE BOULEVARD OF KINGSHIGHWAY WITH SYCAMORE TREES PLANTED BY THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS. IN THE 1980’S SIGNIFICANT CHANGES WERE MADE TO KINGSHIGHWAY AND THE BRONZE PLAQUES WERE IN JEOPARDY OF BEING THROWN AWAY. AMERICAN LEGION POST 15 SAVED 752 OF THE BRONZE PLAQUES AND DOCUMENTED THOSE THAT WERE LOST FOREVER. THE POST HAS HAD A SINGLE MISSION TO FIND AN APPROPRIATE HOME FOR THE PLAQUES. ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 THE WORLD WAR I COURT OF HONOR WAS OFFICIALLY DEDICATED AT THE JEFFERSON BARRACKS NATIONAL CEMETERY IN ST. LOUIS