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Museum exhibit honors local veterans and Georgia's place in WWI

GSU students coordinate, design traveling exhibit

Jacob Lytle, 6, and mom Stacy have a go at the "Up and Over the Top" trench warfare game during a visit to the Georgia Southern Museum exhibit, "The World's War is Georgia's War, 1917-1919" Friday.

W kid playing — Jacob Lytle, 6, and mom Stacy have a go at the "Up and Over the Top" trench warfare game during a visit to the Georgia Southern Museum exhibit, "The World's War is Georgia's War, 1917-1919" Friday.

Joe Hollingsworth wrote a letter to his mother. In it, the young American soldier, in France fighting for his country in World War I, described what he saw: a French farmhouse that had been destroyed by bombing. He was surrounded by utter desolation.

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