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Thank the train was a train of 49 French railway wagons filled with tens of thousands of donations recognition at least that many individual French citizens they showed their appreciation for the more than 700 US relief goods wagons that their are sent by mainly American individual in 1948 thanks the train arrived in the port of New York February 3, 1949 and each of the 48 states in that time has received one of the cars loaded with gift box car was 49th shared by Washington and the territory of Hawaii Parades and welcoming ceremonies were conducted in the state capitals and major cities of almost all the biggest and most popular country was in New York, where more than 200,000 people proved accommodate the car assigned box that State.
The symbol of thanks being right, displayed next to the French flag, is a front view of a steam engine with flowers on the driver that are symbolic of Flanders Field, where many US WW1 Doughboys are buried Drawing was adopted as the official symbol of the Committee being french Thank you, and a plate of the drawing was placed on each of the cars thank the committee also had gift tags carrying the symbol, and accompanied each of the more than 52,000 gifts that came in boxcars.
At the beginning of 1949, there were at least thousands of World War 1 veterans and millions of former WW2 veterans still alive who had memories of spending as much as a week transported, or the battlefronts in this war even exact type of Boxcar There were no seats, no windows, no toilet and no beds or dining Every man and his 39 companions had barely enough room to sit down and they had to adapt their bodies rows have enough room to lie down to sleep most of the veterans who had survived the war memorabilia and some still have those final walks and conversations with friends, including some who were killed and are never returned to the United States the surviving veterans decided to do the little gift BOXCARS monuments to people lost friends and the sacrifices they made to save r the world from the tyranny of Nazism, it is how, for over 60 years, they have volunteered to keep the little old boxcars and affi honorably repaired yEd in an effort to capture all those who had given everything for the freedom of people everywhere, I think all these heroes should continue to be honored by the continued preservation of these humble symbols of their sacrifices.
I guarantee that anyone who volunteers to help with the preservation will be welcomed by veterans who have stepped in to fill the void created by the loss of most of the original guards who have grown old and died since 1949. For more information on who to contact your state, look at this state in this website.
A description of all the gifts that were in the cars would fill many books, and stories of the origins of these gifts would fill much more to see a pictorial sample exceptionally well presented gifts that each French 49 small boxcars reach when they arrived the US, visit the online exhibition on the website of the historical Society of North Dakota State arrived there, click on the words Start interactive exhibition, then follow the signs for photos of objects gifts the cars themselves were antiques 1949, having been built between 1885 and 1901, meaning that those who continue to survive 2010 is more than 100 years.
This site has a photo of each of the remaining cars and photos of some of the more than 52,000 gifts that the train originally shipped to America to see the pictures of one of the boxcars survivors visit by Boxcars Thanks State link at the top of the page and click the links to the individual states and more pictures of the car, the viewer will also find important facts about boxcar of each state, photographs gifts if any are known, and location, address and local contact information.
Thank the train has been important, but little known today, the role of the historic friendship between our two countries since before America won it's independence In fact, the French were fought with us to achieve this status, and we have also given another gift which has become an important symbol of the freedom of America in the world, the Statue of liberty is the hope of the author that his work Thank you on the process will rekindle interest in history and remind people of the two sides of the Atlantic as the international friendship is a great product and well worth the effort it takes to preserve it.
The French, however, are not the only people in Europe to receive food from 1947 Friendship Train, nor were the people of France the only ones to express their gratitude to the people of America significantly ; shortly after the first given food shipment arrived in Italy on Christmas Day 1947, an Italian film company made a documentary film showing the distribution of this food to their citizens destitute The film was sent to America with a request copies are made and be shown in theaters across America, that request was fulfilled a few years later, the Italian government sent a gift of four huge bronze sculptures in gratitude to America for help rid the country of its dictator, Benito Mussolini, and also to help to recover from the devastation that the Nazis had visited their nation, the statues were placed on Washington, DC end of Arlington Memorial and bridges Theodore Roosevelt two pillars on each bridge.
In addition, some time later, the people of the Netherlands expressed their gratitude to America by sending a donation of a large chimes, which is now located near the Marine National Monument in Arlington I remember my visit the carillon is played every few minutes during visiting hours I read that the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries have also benefited from the friendship train.
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