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    The world may little note, but Kansas City still remembers

    by David Von Drehle/Kansas City, Mo. Apr 08, 2017 3 minutes
    Kansas City’s 217-ft. tower, the Liberty Memorial, opened to the public in 1926

    THEY WERE HOPING TO GET THE President. He would attract Prime Ministers and live TV coverage and all the signifiers of an Important Commemoration. But as the day approached, the White House schedule called for the Commander in Chief to spend April 6, 2017, in the company of the Chinese President at Mar-a-Lago.

    So it appeared that the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I would be a bigger deal in Kansas City than elsewhere.

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