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Young Soldier's Odyssey: From Fields to Frontlines
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Tom was 19, a farm kid from Iowa who’d never been east of Chicago. Then April 1917 hit, and the posters went up: _“Uncle Sam Wants You”_. America had been sitting out the war for 3 years. Wilson kept saying “keep us out of Europe’s mess.” That changed when German U-boats started sinking US ships, and the Zimmermann Telegram told Mexico “hey, team up with us against the US.” Congress said that was enough. Tom enlisted at 20. Training at Camp Dodge was chaos: too many men, not enough rifles, drill sergeants who’d fought Indians 30 years earlier. They called
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