MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Kansas State University is remembering 48 students who died fighting in World War I as the nation marks the 100-year anniversary of entering the global conflict.
The university will dedicate Memorial Stadium, where football games were played from the 1920s through 1967, to the soldiers at an event on April 21, the Manhattan Mercury (https://bit.ly/2ojyboe ) reported.
Jed Dunham, writer and researcher for Kansas State’s Office of Military Affairs, wanted to learn more about those who died in the war after seeing their names on a plaque in 2014.
“The sun is shining and it illuminates this plaque, and I just took a picture of it,” he said. “I had an interest and said, ’Oh, who are these guys?’ I thought I could just drop it into Google and it would come back up. But nothing. They all vanished.”
After collecting information on the soldiers, Dunham contacted the school Military Affairs Director Lt. Col. Art DeGroat, who said the research could be used for a formal dedication to the stadium.
“I could not be more pleased with how the K-State family… have come together in support of the dedication of the World War I Memorial Stadium,” DeGroat said. “In particular, the work of Jed Dunham … His work to capture the lost stories of the 48 (K-State) students who died as a result of World War I made this a compelling project about the people - not the place.”
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Information from: The Manhattan (Kan.) Mercury, https://www.themercury.com
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