at the twilight s last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars stars through the perilous fight o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave please take your seats. april 6, 1917, for three years the great war raged across the globe, bringing death, destruction, famine, disease and displacement of peoples across europe, africa and asia. from the atlantic to the pacific. during these years the united states of america remained neutral keeping our distance from the conflicts of the old world. four days earlier on april 2nd, president woodrow wilson addressed a joined session of congress. neutrality is no longer desirable where peace is involved. and the freedom of its people. to minister that peace and freedom lied in the
proudly we hailed at the twilight s last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars stars through the perilous fight o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave please take your seats. april 6, 1917, for three years the great war raged across the globe, bringing death, destruction, famine, disease and displacement of peoples across europe, africa and asia. from the atlantic to the pacific. during these years the united states of america remained neutral keeping our distance from the conflicts of the old world. four days earlier on april 2nd, president woodrow wilson addressed a joined session of congress. neutrality is no longer desirable where peace is involved. and the freedom of its people. to minister that peace and
undereducated, they were losing land, economies were in bad shape, and the feeling was it was time for a change in indian policy. the specific items on their agenda, getting citizenship for indian people. wards of the were u.s. government. the other thing they wanted, by 1914 there was a 100 year backlog of complaints that they had about failure of the treaty relationship, so indian people wanted the court of claims open to them so they could litigate claims against the government. memoriald assemble a and actually present it to the wilson, inwoodrow december of 1914. woodrow wilson did not have anything on his political agenda, though he did indicate he would take the matter seriously. it wouldn t be until 1924 that indian people would get citizenship. the people that came and formed this society and people who came to this meeting were the first generation of prominent indian national figures, perhaps the cloud,ominent was mr. the first graduate of yield first indian grad
gleaming whose broad stripes and bright star s stars through the perilous fight o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave please take your seats. april 6, 1917, for three years the great war raged across the globe, bringing death, destruction, famine, disease and displacement of peoples across europe, africa and asia. from the atlantic to the pacific. during these years the united states of america remained neutral keeping our distance from the conflicts of the old world. four days earlier on april 2nd, president woodrow wilson addressed a joined session of congress. neutrality is no longer desirable where peace is involved. and the freedom of its people. to minister that peace and freedom lied in the existence of autocratic
the united states world war i centennial commission hosts a program from the national world memorial in and kansas city marking the 100th anniversary of america s entry into the war. the ceremony includes a retelling of the american debate over whether to join the global conflict. president wilson signed a declaration of war on april 6, 1917. american men and women served in uniform and more than 100,000 died. this is about one hour 45 minutes. oh say can you see by the dawn s early light athat so proudly we hailed gleaming ht s last whose broad stripes and bright fightthrough the perilous o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming s red glare cket the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night there e flag was still that star-spangled anner yet wave free ande land of the the brave please take your seats. april 6, 1917. great waryears the raged across the globe, bringing death, destruction, famine, disease and displacement to peoples across eu