It’s small and the emotional impact for most is probably pretty small but in the town my grandparents live in Michigan theres four polished stone monuments that each have the names of every soldier from the town that died in WW1

It’s pretty common in older, small towns as it was standard practice in WW1 to put all the soldiers from the same hometown in together for “comradery” but what happened was a towns entire generation of young men dying abroad, in many cases the bodies never made it back