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The following year, events across Europe marked the day, and during World War I, women used it to protest the armed conflict, which lasted from 1914 to 1918.

The newly added sites stretch from Belgium’s north to eastern France, battle zones where the Allied forces clashed with the German army from 1914 to 1918.

From 1914 to 1918, more than 30,000 of the “tirailleurs,” as they were known, were killed.

But World War I, which took place from 1914 to 1918 with the U.S. joining the fight in France in 1917, changed the world and warfare forever.

For Kyle Orlemann — whose husband, father, grandfather and great-uncles served in the military — the proposed name change feels like a personal insult to those who fought in the First World War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918.