President Wilson at Suresnes

This photograph shows President Woodrow Wilson speaking to a crowd at Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial just outside of Paris, France. President Wilson visited the cemetery with his wife, First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, on Decoration Day, now Memorial Day, to remember the soldiers who died during the Great War. This visit happened during the peace treaty talks after World War I ended. Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial holds the graves of over 1,500 American soldiers spanning both world wars.