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Why Fight?

Did Americans serve in World War I for the same reasons they join the armed forces today?



Alan Seeger, Letter to Elsie Simmons Seeger, 1915
Woodrow Wilson, Speech to Congress, 1917

Socialist Party of the United States. 1917

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Max Rudin, Publisher
Library of America



Humanities Advisors

Jennifer D. Keene
Chapman University

Edward G. Lengel
University of Virginia

Michael S. Neiberg
United States Army War College

Chad Williams
Brandeis University



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