Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasize America's potential danger, the next to discredit the forces that were working for peace. Pacifists, Socialists, even those who merely opposed increased defense appropriations, were vilified and persecuted. After a year of persistent pressure and indoctrination the boys were packed off to the Plattsburg military camp to learn how to be heroes. The next year the pacifists, who were "worse than slackers," weren't permitted to speak; the year after that Harvard went off to fight for "the utmost of just causes...
Country bumpkins and city slickers came out of Plattsburg soldiers; under the pointing finger the posters said: "Uncle Sam Needs...