Did You Know?
Poet patriot Joyce Kilmer served in the “Rainbow Division” with Gen. Douglas MacArthur in World War I in France. They never met, but MacArthur kneeled in tribute at Kilmer’s grave in the American Cemetery in the French village of Fere-en-Tardeois in 1931. Kilmer was killed in action during an intelligence mission by a sniper, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for courage under fire. He was 31. Kilmer was the most distinguished American to die in the war.
(Provided by the Joyce Kilmer Society of Mahwah)
