Echoes: A Century Later, Mysteries Remain about WWI Memorial Door
Author: Margaret Fosmoe ’85
Published: Spring 2024
One century ago on Memorial Day — Friday, May 30, 1924 — the campus community gathered to dedicate a permanent landmark honoring former Notre Dame students who had died in or as a result of the Great War.
The armistice had been signed and the guns silenced more than five years earlier.
Today the east entrance of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart — the familiar phrase “God, Country, Notre Dame” carved into the stone above the oaken double doors — is known as the World War I Memorial Door. At the time, it was often called the “Soldiers Memorial Transept Porch” or simply the “Memorial Porch.”
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