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World
War I Chronicles
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Here
are the stories and photos of Texans or Americans who trained in Texas and their
involvement in The Great War as it was called. It has become one of the United
States neglected wars, even though the casualties exceeded 80,000 killed.
There is hardly a Texas Cemetery without the graves of several Doughboys.
The monuments to them are all but invisible. The stance of their statues is more
belligerent and active than those erected to the dead of other wars. It's ironic
considering the time they spent immobile and dying from disease.
They
brought back war trophies from "The War to End All Wars" only to have had them
melted down in scrap drives to fuel another
World War. In many cases - especially in Texas - there were men fighting
their cousins. German immigrants had barely gotten settled here when they were
sent to fight their uncle's sons. |
WWI
- The Camps and Trenches |
Standardized
wheel widths kept you in a rut by Delbert Trew
An article published
in the October 2005 Farm Collector Magazine... tells of an early U.S. government
directive to all wagon manufacturers. Dated Jan. 1, 1919, the directive stated
that, "all wagons must be made to conform to the auto track wheel width of 56
inches."..
The
War Protest by
Bob Bowman
At
the peak of another war ninety years ago, a small East Texas sawmill town made
a statement about American soldiers being killed in a distant land. |
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