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'Brotherhood of the damned': Doughboys return from the World War
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Doughboys, fresh from the trenches of France, brought home a special sense of identity. That sense would influence domestic and foreign policies for the next two decades.
Though America was neutral through the first 2l/2 years of WWI, it certainly wasn't a disinterested bystander. While American sympathies
went to the Allies, so did merchant ships laden with supplies. The ensuing German submarine attacks ensured President Woodrow Wilson would send Doughboys "over there" to "make the world safe for democracy."
Those dispatched to France were a "replica of the country itself," according to ...
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