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Posted on Sep 18, 2019

Judge Robert Marx, a disabled war hero and Cincinnati Superior Court judge, convenes several hundred fellow veterans to form the Disabled American Veterans of the World War (DAVWW), in Cincinnati, Ohio, the founding city and first headquarters for national operations. The group bands together to give voice to the 741,000 veterans forever changed in wartime service.

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