OVER THERE; An Ohio Community's Experience in the GREAT WAR:
Nearly two million Americans - young, innocent, and patriotic - were sent to the blood-soaked battlefields of Europe to, as President Wilson declared, "Make the World Safe for Democracy." There they encountered the horrors of modern war - poison gas, disease, death, and destruction on an unimaginable scale. Through it all, the doughboys upheld their American ideals, earned a reputation as fearsome, courageous fighters, and won the Great War.