What are we fighting for?
What are we fight for?
Speech by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, in which Dr. Wise poses the question: "What are we fighting for? My answer to mothers and fathers is, enviable and even glorious is your lot to give your son or bless their dedication to the highest and holiest of causes in which a people was ever engaged."
Contributor:
Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1918-01-01
personal narrative
George Jacob Doll Collection
Corporal, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida; Camp Merritt, New Jersey; Marseille, France; Nice, France; Paris, France. Lieutenant Colonel, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - United States.
Contributor:
Carlisle, Bonita - Doll, George Jacob
Americanism
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, speaking of those who fell in battle. "To them we must write the binding finish: it shall not happen again. Americans demand: the crime of war shall cease."
Contributor:
Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)
Date:1920-01-01
personal narrative
Lesley C. Bickley Collection
Chief Warrant Officer, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - Pacific Theater; Gilbert Islands; Marshall Islands; Wake Island; Marcus Island; Midway; Stewart Islands; Santa Cruz Islands; Solomon Islands.
Contributor:
National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) - Bickley, Lesley C. - Fieser, Doris - Helen Maple
From the battlefields of France
A patriotic appeal by the U.S. Army to Americans for "their unshrinking support" delivered by General John J. Pershing, Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces.
Contributor:
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Jim Walsh Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1918-01-01
Audio Recording
There is no rank in sacrifice
Speech by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. "Men who live valiantly and die nobly, have a strength and a courage from the Eternal Father. Two of these young heroes have recently received high honor: one a graduate of Annapolis, the other an enlisted man."
Contributor:
Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniels, Josephus
Date:1918-01-01
personal narrative
Lloyd Brown Collection
Seaman Second Class, Navy, World War, 1914-1918 - Norfolk, Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Great Lakes, Illinois; Atlantic Ocean.
Contributor:
National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) - Daughters of the American Revolution, Frederick, Maryland Chapter - Kristin O'Reilly - Brown, Lloyd - Redmond, Patricia
Contributor:
Greenquist, Lars N. - Manta, Vincent - Johnson, Vernon - Va Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI
Date:1918
Audio Recording
Madelon (I'll be true to the whole regiment)
sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: Remick Music Corp., 1918. Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: baritone and male voices with orchestra. French words by Louis Bousquet. Coupling date: 1/15/1919. (Venue). With (reverse side): Till we meet again / Gladys Rice, Vernon Dalhart. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound...
Contributor:
Robert, Camille - Fields, Arthur - Edison - Bryan, Alfred
Date:1919
personal narrative
Guy Ichabod Rowe Collection
Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Philippines; Fort McKinley, Washington; Vancouver Barracks, Washington; Yuma, Arizona; San Diego, California; Camp Taliaferro, California; Paris, France; Cochem, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; Antwerp, Belgium; Fort H.G. Wright, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Fort Benning, Georgia. Brigadier General, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Washington, DC: Camp Lee, Virginia; Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Contributor:
Woodstrup, Thomas - Rowe, Guy Ichabod - Stoker, Brandon - Sycamore Historical Society and Museum
Date:1910
personal narrative
Boone L. Jowers Collection
Chief Petty Officer, Navy, World War, 1914-1918 - Atlantic Ocean; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Baltic Sea; Panama Canal Zone.
Contributor:
Cherokee County Historical Commission - Purtle, Jane - Jowers, Boone L.
Arthur Roland Keller Collection
Corporal, Marine Corps, World War, 1914-1918 - Parris Island, South Carolina; Meuse-Argonne, Toulon-Troyon, Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, Marbache, St. Michiel, Blanc Mont, Verdun, France; Belgium; Luxembourg; Germany.
Contributor:
Keller, Joyce - Legacies: Stories from the Second World War - Keller, Arthur Roland - Swope, Thomas
Date:1918
personal narrative
Arnold Stephen Hoke Collection
Second Lieutenant, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Creston, Iowa; Mexican border; France; Germany; Texas.
Contributor:
Hoke, Arnold Stephen - Munson-Siter, Patricia
Date:1916
Audio Recording
Democrats in the World War
Tribute to President Wilson by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. "A leadership unsurpassed in the history of parliamentary democracy."
Contributor:
Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1919-01-01
Audio Recording
Address
Address by J.D. Rockefeller Jr | United War Work Campaign
Speech by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., chairman of the United War Work Campaign, an organization that raised $35 million for various private organizations working with the troops during World War I. "For the first time in history, people of Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faiths, are standing side by side and working in closest cooperation for a great common cause."
Contributor:
Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison)
Date:1918-01-01
Audio Recording
America's accomplishment
Speech by Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State. "We accomplished our set purpose in an incredibly short time to the bewilderment of the yet admiring world."
Contributor:
A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Breckinridge
At the front
Speech by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. "I saw the superb and veteran armies of Great Britain, France, and Italy. I saw the heroic associates with whom our own army is to fight and I had then, as I have now, a sense of stirring and rising pride in the feeling that America's great and splendidly equipped and prepared army is composed of...
Contributor:
Baker, Newton Diehl - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1918-01-01
Audio Recording
Loyalty
Speech given by Ambassador James Watson Gerard as warning to German Americans, "Every citizen must declare himself American -- or traitor!"
Contributor:
Gerard, James W. (James Watson) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Jim Walsh Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
Enos Pearl Scott Collection
First Lieutenant, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - France. Colonel, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - England; France; Germany.
Contributor:
Fleischer, Leslie - Va Medical Center Charles George, Asheville, North Carolina - Scott, Enos Pearl
Date:1912
Audio Recording
American rights
A speech by William Gibbs McAdoo, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. "Fellow countrymen, this great Republic is facing one of the most extraordinary situations in the world's history. It would be difficult to exagerate the seriousness of the great conflict in which we are engaged."
Contributor:
McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1918-01-01
personal narrative
Frank Woodruff Buckles Collection
Corporal, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - United States; England; France; Germany. Civilian, World War, 1939-1945 - Philippines.
Contributor:
Buckles, Frank Woodruff - McMillen, Liz