“We lost 116,000 men in WWI and we weren’t invited to the ceremonies????“
While I share your thoughts, just to put it in perspective, the French lost 1.3 million, the British 3/4 of a million and the Germans just north of 2 million.
Our deaths were but one battle for the major players. Heck I think on the first day of the first encounter between the French and Germans the French lost 27k killed.
The French lost around 500,000 in the first six months—much of it because the politicians stupidly refused to replace the “pantalons rouges” (Red Pants) uniform, topped with a nice shiny brass belt buckle, that belonged back in Napoleon’s era. In an age of long-range, flat-shooting Mauser rifles and Maxim machine guns, it was a literal bullet magnet.
And the British lost around 60,000 troops in one morning at the Battle of the Somme.
I understand all that, but without American troops to break the stalemate they would probably still be fighting.