Everybody around me was going crazy about the war. I was under age- eighteen- but with as bad a case of war fever as the next fellow. Worse, probably. Because when America went into the war I'd made up my mind that for once I was going to do the same thing everybody else was doing.

— John L. Barkley Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero (1930)

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