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Save Smarter • Live Better • Rockford Region/Freeport 95¢ • April 2, 2014
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Right in Our Region
The Great War: WW I at Midway Village By Janine Pumilia, executive editor
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ne hundred years ago, in 1914, a terrible war ignited that was unlike any before it. Originally called “The Great War,” World War I embroiled 27 nations, killed 10 million people and injured or displaced another 29 million. It forever changed the world map and laid groundwork for the rise of Nazi Germany and World War II.
“Many of the issues we still deal with today, in the Mid-East, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, are rooted in the unresolved issues of World War I,” says Dave Fornell, coordinator of an upcoming World War I living history event in Rockford – the largest event of its kind in the nation. Continued on p. 20
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