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Preserving The Memory Of Idaho's WWI Heros

Photo courtesy Brassey Family Collection
Pictures of Pvt. Willis Brassey during WWI

More than 100 Idahoans served with the 20th Forestry Regiment during World War I. They were tasked with infrastructural projects and supplies. The granddaughter of Willis Brassey, one of those Idahoans, has curated a record of the service of the Idahoans of the 20th.

Eve Chandler joins us to talk about the regiment and we'll talk with Boise State grad student Hayley Noble who has researched the role played by Old Idaho Pen prisoners in World War I.

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