Hunt for Slackers New York’s draft cleanup, the detection and putting into uniform of young men who fooled themselves into thinking that they could save their precious skins by evading the selective service law, started on a prodigious scale. More … Continue reading
Aida Austin, Eldred, to McKinley Austin, France August 19, 1918 Dear McKinley, We have been having a few cold days and it seems good after the terribly hot weather we had. Your dad’s and Uncle Lon’s buckwheat looks fine. Uncle … Continue reading
Both Irwin Briggs and Cyrus Roullion (and probably many of the others in this story) experienced Gas Warfare. Until the first world war, it was considered uncivilized to use poison gas. The French fired tear-gas grenades against the Germans in … Continue reading
