When progressive Democratic President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war “to make the world safe for democracy” in April 1917, he set in motion a chain of events that would change America forever. The nation was now divided. If you weren’t 100 percent for the war, then you were the enemy. When a draft was needed to fill the ranks of the Army, anyone opposed fell into that category.
June 5, 1917 was set aside as national registration day, and one of the loudest critics was a 48-year-old Russian…
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