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Before his death in Charles Town in 2011, he was the last surviving American veteran of World War I.
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Memorial Day was first established as Decoration Day after which war?
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Soldiers in what war received bounty lands in present West Virginia for their military participation?
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In 1758, during the French & Indian War, Shawnee warriors attacked these two Pendleton County forts within days.
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Dick Pointer, an enslaved man, helped save this fort during an Indian raid in the Revolutionary War.
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The Revolutionary War-era Fort Savannah helped lead to the founding of this city.
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At the beginning of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, where did Merriweather Lewis first acquire weapons?
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During the frontier era, which one of the following did Andrew Lewis NOT participate in?
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Since the Civil War, who are the only brothers from West Virginia to earn the Medal of Honor?
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Who earned the last Medal of Honor awarded for World War II (based on the date of the action)?
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