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ByJimSuhr The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, MO. By de- sign, World War I never strays from Matt Naylor's thoughts: His grandfather's wartime shaving kit is on display in his office where he oversees a museum in Kansas City, Missouri, dedi- cated to all things involving "The Great War." "I have a familial rela- tionship with World War I that's very direct," said Nay- lor, whose father, after serv- ing with the British dur- ing World War II, moved to Australia, where Naylor was raised and acquired his lasting accent. That lineage "is an important part of my story." So it is little wonder that Naylor embraces Thursday, when the National World War I Museum and Memo- rial he guides as president and CEO hosts a centennial observance of the day the U.S. begrudgingly waded into the global conflict that President Woodrow Wilson had sought to avoid. In the shadow of the hilltop site's 217-foot-tall monument known as the Liberty Memorial Tower, foreign dignitaries are join- ing 3,000 onlookers who snapped up tickets for the daylong homage titled "In Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace." The event started with patriotic music and a video showing the story of a soldier, narrated by actor Gary Sinise and broadcast on two massive screens. The event on the grounds of the nation's official World War I monument was to fea- ture an eclectic mix of mu- sic, poetry, speeches and readings from the time America first declared war on Germany. To Naylor, the event "is commemorating, not cele- brating" the moment when the U.S. trudged off to war at a time tanks and air com- bat were new. By the time American military muscle helped vanquish Germany and the conflict ended in 1918, more than 9 million people were lost to combat, some 116,000 of them Americans. "World War I may not be part of the cultural narra- tive," Naylor, whose grand- father served with the Brit- ish in France a century ago, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "But it is a defining period of history that reshaped the U.S. and birthed the American cen- tury. This gives us an op- portunity to honor that." He figures the memorial's selection for the centennial was a nod to the city's push to make the monument happen, thanks to a burst of postwar patriotism that over 10 days in 1919 raised $2.5 million — the equiv- alent to about $35 million today. Children pitched in, going door-to-door collect- ing money in what was "an early 20th century story of crowdsourcing," museum spokesman Mike Vietti said. So noteworthy was the achievement that Allied commanders from Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, France and the U.S. gathered in 1921 to dedicate the site, across the street from the Kansas City train station that more than half of U.S. troops passed through be- fore being shipped overseas. When the monument was completed five years later, more than 150,000 turned out to hear President Calvin Coolidge dedicate it. But years of deferred maintenance led the site to be closed in 1994. A mas- sive $102 million transfor- mation followed, funded by a sales tax, bond issue and private donations. The ex- terior was repaired, and the design firm behind at- tractions such as Wash- ington's Holocaust Memo- rial Museum was tapped to create a new museum that would tell World War I's story of assassination, em- pires swept away and new nations born. The site — its 200,000 visitors last year spanning more than 70 countries — was made official in legis- lation that President Barack Obama signed in 2014. 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