The Saracen's Head

Ninety- Nine Going on a Hundred

St. Lawrence Church, consecrated April 20th, 1918

posted by Anna

100 Years Ago Today

On April 6th, 1917, the United States Congress declared war on Germany, thus entering WWI, the "war to end all wars". President Woodrow Wilson, the peace-lover, asked for war. Congress stood up and cheered its enthusiasm. As Wilson later said,

"Isn't it strange that men should cheer for war,"

This is the thing we fight:

A cry of terror in the night;

A ship on work of mercy bent--

A carrier of the sick and maimed--

Beneath the cruel waters sent,

And those who did it, unashamed.

--Edgar A Guest, c. 1917-18