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World War
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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
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Standardized
wheel widths kept you in a rut by Delbert Trew
12-26-07
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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Recommended
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New Handbook of Texas |
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