At the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918, U.S. forces led by Gen. John Pershing proved to their French and British Counterparts that American soldiers could fight. Georges Scott Last summer, at a small cemetery in France, I was privileged to complete an arc of military history that began in 1776 and stretches from Frederick, Md., all the way to Paris. It began with my sixth great grandfather, Capt. Michael McGuire, once a deputy sheriff of Frederick County.
