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English
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A History of Memory Grove
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Utah and the Great War : The Beehive State and the World War I Experience
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press. Copublished with the Utah State Historical Society.
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394-400
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"How do we remember and honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice? Partial answers came with the construction of memorials in many Utah towns listing the names of those from the area who had served and those who had lost their lives. A statewide memorial was established in Memory Grove at the mouth of City Creek Canyon, just below the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. The idea for the commemorative park was announced in April 19 and by early sum-mer 1924 Memory Grove, with its bronze tablet listing the names of the 665 Utah servicemen who died during the war, had become a real-ity. Subsequently, two World War I artifacts were placed in Memory Grove—a captured German artillery piece by the Disabled American Veterans in 1926, and, in 1949, one of forty-nine railroad boxcars known as a “ & 8” because of their use during World War I to trans-port either forty men or eight horses. The railroad car, an expression of gratitude by France, is now preserved in the Ogden Railroad Museum. In 1948 a meditation chapel was completed in Memory Grove as a World War II memorial. Our concluding chapter recounts the efforts of mothers, veterans, and other Utah citizens to create Memory Grove on a site where Mormon pioneers camped following their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. [Editor]