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Under Dalessandro’s leadership the World War I Centennial Commission is coordinating events on both sides of the Atlantic, including a recent rededication of the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, east of Paris. (Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)
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