The images below (and the family stories behind a few of them) opened a door for me into the reality of the

American World War I experience. You may see their echoes in Ellie’s Great War.

High-school class photo during the influenza epidemic, Colorado, 1919

Family photograph. Caption in my father’s handwriting:
   “Knitting blankets for soldiers World War I — Stockton Ave. School — Walton [New York.]”
Boy in center front is probably my father, Lewis DuMond.

My father’s cousin Willard C. Dann, taken in France, 1919.
Dad’s transcripts of letters that Bill wrote to his aunt and uncle helped me visualize the wartime experience in France.