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Armistice Day Centennial

John J. Pershing considered Fox Conner to have been "a brilliant soldier" and "one of the finest characters our Army has ever produced." During World War I, General Conner served as chief of operations for the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. Pershing told Conner, "I could have spared any other man in the A.E.F. better than you." Dwight D. Eisenhower viewed Fox Conner as, "the outstanding soldier of my time." In the early 1920s, Conner transformed his protege Eisenhower from a struggling young officer on the verge of a court martial into one of the American Army's rising stars. Eisenhower acknowledged Fox Conner as "the one more or less invisible figure whom I owe an incalculable debt."  On Sunday, November 11, 2018, at 1:00 p.m., the USS KIDD Veterans Museum observes the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day with a special KIDD Keynotes presentation examining an individual forgotten by today's society....