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First Speaker

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16. America's entry into World War One

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 08:04 PM

Mar 2015

...I know this is going back aways, but the ripples from this decision continue to spread even now. I used to take it for granted that our entry into the war was an unavoidable necessity. Now, I think it was the greatest error in our national history, at least since slavery ended.

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