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Show Asks Funds for Verdun and Liege Memorials Appeal has been made by National Commander John II. McQuigg of the American Legion to members of the Legion and of the Legion auxiliary for contributions towards the erection at Verdun and Liege of international memorials of the sacrifices and services serv-ices of the armed forces of all the nations na-tions allied together during the World war. These projects were given formal approval ap-proval by the Legion's national executive execu-tive committee at a recent meeting. The committee directed the national commander to call upon Legionnaires and auxiliary members to contribute to the funds for the memorials. Con-, Con-, tributions for the two funds are being . received by National Treasurer Robert Rob-ert II. Tyndall, national headquarters, the American Legion, Indianapolis, Ind. At Verdun will be erected a great ossuary in which- will be interred the bones of the unidentified dead of the battle which raged around that crucial point in allied defense. It will com-njL'morate com-njL'morate especially the trench of the bayonets near Fort Douaumont. The ossuary is to consist of a series of chapels, surmounted by a central tower in which a light is to burn forever. for-ever. The French committee in charge of the project, under the chairmanship chair-manship of Marshal retain, has offered of-fered to the United States as its part of this international memorial the ( central tower. Contributions of Legionnaires Le-gionnaires to the Verdun memorial will be used for its erection. The committee in charge hopes to have the memorial completed so that It may be dedicated in 1927, when the American Amer-ican Legion convention Is expected to be held in Paris. At Liege in Belgium the memorial is to take the form of a civic hall, with representation for each allied ... country in it. |