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By Mildred Andrews Posted 1/14/1999 HistoryLink.org Essay 679 On Armistice Day, November 11, 1921, members of the Seattle Garden Club, led by President Lillian Gustin McEwan, planted the first 25 elm trees along Des Moines Way S  (later renamed Des Moine Memorial Drive) — the beginning of a living memorial to “American men who gave