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World War 1. 100 years ago right now

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Today -100: April 6, 1917: It’s War!

 

At 3:12 a.m. today, Congress voted 373 to 50 to declare war on Germany (“that a state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared”).
 
The war formally begins at the more civilized hour of noon. (Update: wait, no, it only goes to the Senate at noon.)
 
Jeanette Rankin (R-Montana) utters the first words spoken in Congress by a female member: “I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.”

The no votes largely came from the Midwest, with its many ethnic Germans. 9 of the 50 are from Wisconsin.
And 4 from Mississippi for some reason. 32 were Republican, 16 Democrat, 1 Socialist and 1 independent.
 
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Today -100: April 7, 1917: It’s War day 2!!

 

Woodrow Wilson signs the war declaration, and it’s away we go. (Yes, Congress alone has the authority to declare war, but they wanted to do it in a form he’d also have to sign). The only actual acts of war seem to be the seizure of 91 German-owned ships, many of whose crews sabotaged them as soon as they heard about the declaration of war, and an order to arrest 60+ alleged spies. This is done without a court order under the president’s powers derived from the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, one of the Alien and Sedition Acts. FDR used it to intern Japanese-Americans.

The war proclamation warns non-naturalized Germans in the US to preserve the peace and says that if they do they won’t be rounded up. Oh, and they can’t have guns or radios or aircraft or ciphers or invisible writing materials or come within a half-mile of any fort, navy ship, munitions factory etc etc or write anything attacking the government or any of its policies. It will be pointed out that this half-mile radius includes the heart of Manhattan surrounding the state arsenal on 35th.

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lots and lots of WW 1 photos and film were digitized and computer available.

 

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2017/04/05/accessing-world-war-i-photos-in-the-digital-age/

Original Caption: Opening of 3rd Liberty Loan Drive on first anniversary of U.S. entry into war. Charlie Chaplin, comedy star of the “movies” making his first speech for the Third Liberty Loan in front of the State, War and Navy Building, Washington D.C. April 6, 1918

 

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the US Army was racially segregated.

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Decorated soldiers of the 369th return home with their French Croix de Guerre awards. Front Row: Private Ed “Eagle Eye” Williams, Corporal Herbert “Lamp Light” Taylor, Private Leon Fraitor, Private Ralph “Kid Hawk” Hawkins. Back Row: Sergeant H.D. Prinas, Sergeant Dan Storms, Private Joe “Kid Woney” Williams, Private Alfred “Kid Buck” Hanley, and Corporal T.W. Taylor.

 

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Part of Squadron A, 351st Field Artillery, returning on the transport, Louisville. Most of these men were from Philadelphia, PA

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On 4/6/2017 at 10:03 AM, Lester_in_reno said:

Today -100: April 6, 1917: It’s War!

 

At 3:12 a.m. today, Congress voted 373 to 50 to declare war on Germany (“that a state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared”).
 
The war formally begins at the more civilized hour of noon. (Update: wait, no, it only goes to the Senate at noon.)
 
Jeanette Rankin (R-Montana) utters the first words spoken in Congress by a female member: “I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.”

The no votes largely came from the Midwest, with its many ethnic Germans. 9 of the 50 are from Wisconsin.
And 4 from Mississippi for some reason. 32 were Republican, 16 Democrat, 1 Socialist and 1 independent.
 
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That's really interesting. 

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Another US  munitions factory blows up.

(Chester, PA).

The plant  owners blame German agents.

Must not be that its just really  farking dangerous to work in one of these places!

130+ are dead, in an instant!

And lots of young women.....

 

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9805E2DE153AE433A25752C1A9629C946696D6CF

 

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ok, this weeks 3-part series on PBS  about WW 1 and the USA was absolutely  farking awesome.

 

YOU CAN STREAM IT AT PBS.ORG.

 

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When the United States declared war on Germany, the Marine Corps was scattered all over the world. They were serving in Cuba, the Philippines, Haiti, China, Nicaragua, Santo Domingo and other places.

Five Marine regiments existed but seldom did they serve as a regiment. Mostly, they were broken up into separate battalions and companie

s. On paper, Marine regiments were organized along the same lines as the Army - three infantry battalions and a machine gun company plus headquarters and support units. Each regiment had three battalions and each battalion had four companies.

On 06 April, 1917, the Marine Corps consisted of 419 officers and 13,214 enlisted personnel serving on land. At sea, on board ships, were 49 officers and 2,187 enlisted personnel. In training were 1,193 recruits at the two main training depots - Parris Island, then called Marine Barracks, Port Royal, South Carolina, and Mare Island in San Francisco.
 

 

 

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On 4/22/2017 at 4:58 PM, Lester_in_reno said:

Don't want the 'enemy'

to know people are starving in Germany.

My wife's mother talks about her time as a young girl in Berlin. Searching through ruins for potatoes or anything edible. Her grandfather was forced by the SS to join the army at age 60 or so. He was a dissenter but his family was threatened if he didn't join. They still to this day do not know where or how he died. But they do know he died for a cause he was firmly against.

I guess I have to clarify this was WWII but the correlation is the same.

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I recently cleaned out my mother's house and found this book, Forward March. I checked online and it apparently is quite old but it's full of pictures and historical comments on WWI. I don't know where she got it but when I saw it I immediately thought of this thread. I'm really going to take a closer look at it when I have the time. 

It's in much better shape then these but it's very possible from the smell and aging of the book they are originals from the 1930's. 

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Colorized photos/

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A British soldier helps a wounded German prisoner walk along a railway track. A man, possibly an official French war photographer is shown behind them, holding a camera and tripod. The derogatory term for a German, ‘Boche’ or ‘Bosch’, originates from the French slang ‘alboche’, which was two words ‘Allemand’ (German) and ‘caboche’ (pate, head) put together.

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T his photograph shows a group of soldiers standing in the entrance to a dugout. Other men are outside, standing beside a washing line with towels on it. A pot is steaming on a brazier made of a tin drum. The cap and collar badges of the men are not distinct but appear to vary, suggesting they are from more than one unit. This rather domestic scene appears well removed from the reality of the trenches at the Front. It may have been intended to counter criticism of the campaign by implying that it was better organized than was the case.

 

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US draft!

 

Conscription (“selective service”) passes the House 397-24 and the Senate 81-8. Both houses vote to double the current pay of enlisted men. The Senate version would draft men aged 21 to 27, the House version 21 to 40. States will be responsible for providing a number of soldiers proportionate to their population. No sign-up bonus will be allowed, no paying for substitutes as in the Civil War.

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