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40,000 of those were combat troops and another 160,000 did mainly labor. The folks who roll home about their experiences from the labor battalion and from combat units talk about two things. The talk about the difficulty of fighting for democracy in a jim crow army. And they talk about the investments of many of their fellow white soldiers and making sure that they do not have rising expectations for their own Citizenship Rights after world war i. They also talk a lot about how france has opened up the world for them in a variety of different ways. Their experience with french people fighting alongside the colonial troops of color, for a segment that was given over to the french army for this duration of the war, fighting under commanders who do not have the same kind of investment in american White Supremacy, it often made them realize that the world could be, and in so ....
Started because were at 9 00. But im going to do this. Im going to read you a paragraph, just in case any of you wandered in without actually checking your program or the door, and you can guess what that paragraph what this panel is about. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than the peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest to our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples and shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the ....
Im going to read you a paragraph, just in case any of you wandered in without actually checking your program or the door, and you can guess what that paragraph what this panel is about. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than the peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest to our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples and shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when america is privileged to spend her ....
Im going to read you a paragraph, just in case any of you wandered in without actually checking your program or the door, and you can guess what that paragraph what this panel is about. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than the peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest to our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples and shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when america is privileged to spend her ....