A century ago, the modern weaponry carried by the European armed forces of World War I killed thousands of young men on a daily basis. The carnage of trench warfare had never been seen on such a large scale in the history of war. In the United States, former president and war hero of the Spanish-American War Theodore Roosevelt was caught in the crosshairs of his political foe, President Woodrow Wilson, and an American citizenry that did not support the United States’ entry into the grave-fille


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