Local men died during World War I
The anniversary of the ending of World War I is on Nov. 11. During that war, more than 1,000 men from Washington County went into the military to help the allies and fight for freedom. Not everyone came home from the battlefields, and a few who paid that ultimate sacrifice were from the Forest Lake area.
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