CORRECTS THE SOURCE In this undated photo from the collection provided by Patrick Lernout, American World War One soldier Wesley Creech, stands in his uniform. As if by premonition, Private Wesley Creech no longer hid the darkness of his soul from his wife Carzetta and five-month-old daughter Marie during the decisive weeks of World War One.“If I never see you and Marie any more, I hope to meet you in a Better Place,” he penned down in his best strokes on Aug. 24, 1918, when the American army was pushing the Germans back in Belgium. He signed off the letter with “good By.” One week later he was killed by an enemy bullet in the head. On Wednesday, March 26, 2014, President Barack Obama will honor those Americans who died in a struggle so all-encompassing, so horrific, it simply became known as the Great War. Obama thus pre-empts most of the continental centennial remembrances which are tarteged at the early August 1914 start of hostilities which pitted the German and Austro-Hungarian empires against France, Britain and Russia and others. (AP Photo)
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