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Americans Rally For War As Guards Guard Bridges
The narrator recounts a nation mobilizing after war declaration with national guards on bridges and tunnels from Cheyenne to Chicago. In Pittsburg a blue jacket battalion marches from a train to a lunch room while munitions work at full blast and wages rise for factory labor. Philadelphia shows navy enthusiasm with recruiting booths for battleships and cruisers as society absorbs the news.
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Union Pacific
National Guard
Cheyenne
Chicago
Missouri River
Great Lakes
Naval School
Navy
Army
Indiana
Ohio
Pittsburg
Union Station
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Khyber Hills
Afghanistan
India
South Africa
Bluejackets
Germany
America
Liberty
Davy Jones’ Locker
Philadelphia
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