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warned that Coward ice and submission would Lead to the sad Choice of a variety of ravaged coun try a depopulated City habitations with out and slavery without Hope our Homes turned into Barracks and Bawdy houses for in other the stakes for survival were Many years in a third of the 35 states seceded from the the result was the civil by far the bloodiest conflict in in addition to prosecuting the president Lincoln took some Tough Steps and some Wise to Deal with potential he suspended the constitutional right of Hareas Corpus yet at the same in the Republican presi Dent sought National conciliation by naming a Loyal Democrat from a Confederate Andrew Johnson of As his vice Early in the last America faced yet another mortal world War Back approximately on Quarter of Pur population was hold ing considerable sympathy for the father More there was suspicion that pro German elements were com mitting sabotage inside the United states Germany was held responsible for a killing at a major munitions depot on Black Tom Island in new York Harbor on july the following the United states entered the War against now Ameri cans had no Choice but to emphasizing the High stakes was James presi Dent Wilsons ambassador to Germany for four who came Home to become a leading spokesman for the War on Gerard spoke to a la Dies Aid using Blunt language that surely rattled after praising the doonesbury vast majority of German americans for being splendidly Loyal to our Gerard added a note of recalling a conversation in Berlin the foreign minister of Germany once said to your country does not dare do anything against because we have in your country German reservists who will Rise in arms against your to which Ger Ard i told him that that might be but that we had lamp posts in this and that that was where the reservists would be hanging the Day after they tried to americans today Arent used to such Blunt and its possible to argue that Ger Ard was on the other its not possible to argue one key reality America won that yet the Takeaway Point is not that the prewar party is always in the its hard to for that the Viet Nam War helped and the same holds True for the current War in but a few lessons for National survival Shine through these past three centuries of history National Unity is our pre Cious internal Security is there Are always people who want to kill and so its critical to keep them out Side our if we can Bear these lessons in we have every reason to be confident about the next 231 James Pinkerton is a new York new Day by Garry Trudeau Veninga Imor unuj5lcom5commsm5 from Cbrown Sozimo Ftp him Dtho Buck poor mind if 100 ch5ckon him 0utyou still have id