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Subject: Re: [WW1] American Soldiers
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:10:21 EST


Your figures for American casualties during the 19 months the U. S. was
involved in combat are way too low.

Sixty Thousand died of disease (mainly influenza) while just over 50 thousand
Doughboys died of wounds. Nearly 600,000 U. S. civilians also died of
influenza in 1918 and early 1919.

Also, American involvement in the conflict began long before Congress
declared war on Germany April 6, and on Austria-Hungary on April 7, 1917.

Wall Street bankers arranged hundreds of millions of dollars in war loans for
Great Britain, Russia and France. When America became a belligerent in April
1917, the Treasury guaranteed these loans which funded massive Entente
purchases of American munitions, food, fodder, mules and horses.

And, President Woodrow Wilson worked in vain for three years to broker a
negotiated settlement among the belligerents.

LGS

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