Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0153Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large number of soldiers standing at attention. Above the image "W198 (Star)" is printed, below the image "19100 Our Answer to the Kaiser - 3,000 of America's Millions Eager to Fight for Democracy." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
19100
OUR ANSWER TO THE KAISER
When on April 6, 1917, war with Germany was declared, the total stength of the regular army and National Guard was 307,000. Yet in nineteen months an army of nearly two mililon men were drafted and mobilized in great camps which were prepared for them. They were clothed and fully equipped with arms and ammunition. They were given a miliary training and transported across the sea where they opposed, successfully, the soldier of the most warlike nations of Europe. This was a most marvelous achievement, possible only when fine men are inspired by the highest partiotism.
The commandrs of the training camps asserted that the men in training were the finest material in the world. In these camps all that could be done for the welfare of the men was done on a scale never before equaled by any nation in its preparation for war. Men from the north, the south, the east and the west met and learned to know each other. The mounaineers were borught out form their isolatioin, and the unity of the great Americna nation was shown as had never been done before. These men were trained for war and learned the miliary life faster than had been thougth possible. The Germans had underrated the American soldier. Our men entered the line on the Marne where the Germans were successfully diving toward Paris. On Juen 14, 1918, at Belleau Wood they stopped the German advance. At Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel, everywhere, they proved themselves fighting men of the first class. All this is especially remarkable because previous to the openin gof this war the Unitd States was the most un-warlike niation in theworld.
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