Join American historian and author Robert J. Dalessandro who has written and presented extensively on the American Expeditionary Forces' contributions to the First World War. Dalessandro is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army and the Deputy Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). He is former Director of the United States Army Center of Military History at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. Dalessandro frequently leads battlefield tours to sites in the United States, France and Italy. He is author of Willing Patriots: Men of Color in the First World War, American Lions: The 332nd Infantry Regiment in Italy in World War I, and Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Force. Dalessandro lives in Northern Virginia. Lecture presented in partnership with the Arlington Sister City Association and Arlington World War I Commemoration Task Force.