Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year of war has come and gone, as we observe today the anniversary of the entrance of our country into the European conflict. It has been in many ways a hard year and in many more a great one. It has been fundamental changes in our national life which will perhaps mold the destiny of our future. It is a year of which we may well take stock, both for the satisfaction of the present and for the hope of the days which are to come...
...America of a year ago was a different nation from the one we now know. On the brink of a great struggle, it had made no preparations for war. It was a nation of individuals, divided by a hundred varying interests and cares, peaceful and contented in its material prosperity, and complacent in its traditions of democracy and the freedom of men, a sort of Babylonian boarding house of enlightened beings, living in a happiness which was sooner or later bound to meet the rocks of the vital problems of the world's life. All that is changed today...
...words to point out the accomplishments of the year's time. A great army has passed through the beginnings of training and a considerable force is already in France. Twenty billions of our national wealth have been apportioned for our Allies and for our own participation in the war. Ships have been produced as never before. Our navy has become a real force of protection. We have come to supply huge populations with our food products and national resources. And so it runs in every phase of our national life. There have been many mistakes and much confusion...
...exasperating foe. But love of country, love of freedom from Teutonism, and love of the right dictates these sentiments. They are not felt by the cold-hearted and stoical alone; the timid share them too. They are the convictions of the thinking part of a nation in a horrible war...
...Getting Together" is presented for the Allied War Charities, and because of that fact there is no war tax on the tickets...