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The LDS Church is known for its missionary work, and the case was not any different during the early years of the church. During World War I, however, missionary work was negatively affected. Many of those who would otherwise serve missions for the church, enrolled in military service, limiting the number of men available to become LDS ...
Specific programs and in-school curricula targeted the patriotic development of children, especially teens. New history curricula introduced rewrote the story of the American past to de-emphasize the friction between the colonies and Britain, and to deconstruct historical American and German amity, to vilify the Germans. [17]
In 1995, the men's story was turned into a Tyne Tees Television documentary called The Richmond Sixteen, and, in 2007, they were one of the subjects of a book by Will Ellsworth-Jones. [3] At Richmond Castle, early in the 21st century English Heritage laid out an area called the Cockpit Garden as a memorial to the men known as the Richmond Sixteen.
Cluny's gas mask, which came to be called the British Smoke Hood was used between June and September 1915, during which time some 2.5 million were produced. The German army used poison gas for the first time against Allied troops at the Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium on April 22, 1915. [5]
Anna Coleman Ladd Triton Babies in Boston Public Garden. Anna Coleman Watts Ladd (July 15, 1878 – June 3, 1939) was an American sculptor in Massachusetts who devoted her time and skills throughout World War I to designing prosthetics for soldiers who were disfigured from injuries received in combat.
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The toddler was in the car with his mom and sister when they collided head on with another vehicle at the speed of 70 mph. The force from the crash was so intense that Jackson's head pulled apart ...
Joseph and Michael Hofer were brothers who died from mistreatment at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth in 1918. The pair, who were Hutterites from South Dakota, were among four conscientious objectors from their Christian colony who had been court-martialed and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for refusing to be drafted in to the United States Army during World ...